Лучшие книги Пола Кемпа

В «Обманутых», романе, основанном на популярнейшей онлайн-игре «Звездные Войны: Старая Республика», раскрывается история одного из знаковых персонажей вселенной Звёздных Войн — Дарта Малгуса. Именно Малгус, самый зловещий воин-ситх из всего Ордена темных владык, сокрушил Храм джедаев на Корусанте. Эта жестокая атака потрясла всю Галактику. Но если война сделала из него темного антигероя, мир превратит его в нечто намного более страшное — нечто, чем и сам Малгус становиться не желает. Но он не в силах этому воспрепятствовать, как и джедай Эйрин Ленир, идущая по его следу. Во время нападения на Храм темный владыка убил ее учителя и теперь она…

Прошло восемь лет с тех пор, как Войны клонов опустошили Галактику. Республика перестала существовать, и на ее месте господствует Империя. Вся власть в руках Императора, тайного повелителя ситхов, который вместе со своим учеником, могущественным Дартом Вейдером, безраздельно владеет Галактикой, используя ресурсы гигантской имперской военной машины. Любое инакомыслие подавлено, и от свободы остались лишь воспоминания — все во имя мира и порядка. Но то тут, то там начинают тлеть и вспыхивать очаги сопротивления, и самый горячий из них — движение «Свободный Рилот» под предводительством Чама Синдуллы. После множества мелких диверсий…

Война Паучьей Королевы подходит к концу. Богиня Ллос прервала свое затянувшееся молчание и вернула силу жрицам-дроу. Теперь она ждет Избранную, чтобы завершить воплощение и вернуть всю полноту власти. Тем временем отряд темных эльфов неуклонно приближается к цели своего долгого и опасного путешествия - к Вечной Паутине Ллос. Три жрицы готовы на все, чтобы добраться до богини, однако цели у них разные. Но Ллос не была бы богиней Хаоса, если бы позволила предугадать свои планы.

Эревис Кейл и его компаньоны смогли спастись из гибнущего Храма Теней. Для этого Эревис поступился своей сущностью и стал шейдом - существом, неразрывно связанным с тенями. Он сделал это, чтобы помочь своим друзьям, но это не облегчило превращение и последующее мучительное приспособление к новым возможностям. Однако душевные терзания не помещали ему телепортировать себя со товарищи на Уровень Тени, чтобы начать погоню за слаадами, выкравшими из Храма Теней бесценный артефакт, необходимый их хозяину - Страннику. Погоня привела Эревиса в Подземье, в город Скаллпорт, где слаады намереваются прикарманить еще один полезный артефакт. Преследователи, разумеется, настигают воришек, но Эревиса ожидает неприятное открытие.

В руки Эревиса Кейла, бывшего наемного убийцы, попадает загадочный артефакт. С помощью своих друзей - Драйзека Ривена и хафлинга Джака Флита - Кейл узнает, хранителем какой тайны он стал: артефакт указывает время появления Храма Теней. За обладание этим знанием маг Врагген и его прихвостни готовы пожертвовать не одной жизнью - столь велико могущество, которое станет доступно побывавшему в Храме. Ловко используя оружие и магию, обе компании почти одновременно приближаются к заветному месту силы. Но конечно же, Храм Теней подготовил немало сюрпризов для всех своих гостей.

Прелюдия к роману "Старая Республика: Обманутые".
Опубликован в журнале Star Wars Insider #124 Империя потеряла Алдераан. По имперским каналам связи поступил приказ отступать, но почувствовав поблизости присутствие джедая, Малгус решает встретится с ним в поединке.

The shadows deepen in every corner of the Realms.

The sun no longer shines on a man who has embraced the darkness within him.

The day's opposite finds Erevis Cale so far along the path away from his own humanity, he may never again walk as a man.

In the end, to be Chosen by a god like Mask is more curse than blessing...

Forty years. Forty stories. In honor of the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope, this collection features Star Wars stories by bestselling authors, trendsetting artists, and treasured voices from Star Wars literary history. More than forty authors have lent their unique vision to forty “scenes,” each retelling a different moment from the original Star Wars film, but with a twist: Every scene is told from the point of view of a background character. Whether it’s the X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star or the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for, Star Wars: From a Certain…

The first full-length novel in this series, "Shadow's Witness" explores the life of Erevis Cale, a butler with impeccable deportment and a penchant for dark secrets. He must return to the shadowy life he left behind to protect the family that has made him one of their own from the horrors of the Abyss. Original.

The Lady has spoken to me.

It has already begun.

Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia.

“Be brave, little man,” says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. “Stay with your mother. This will be over soon.”

The shadows swallow him and he is gone.

On the edge of a war that will change the face of Faerûn, the world will find that not all shadows serve Shade.

In the 2nd book of the multi-author Sundering series launched by New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore, the shadow legacy of Erevis Cale lives on even as his old foe Mephistopheles seeks to stamp it out at any cost. Cale’s son Vasen—unmoored in time by the god Mask—has thus far been shielded from the archdevil’s dark schemes, alone among the servants of the Lord of Light who have raised him since birth.

Living in a remote abbey nestled among the Thunder Peaks of Sembia, Vasen is haunted by dreams of his father, trapped in the frozen hell of Cania. He knows the day will come when he must assume his role in the divine drama unfolding across Faerûn. But Vasen knows not what that role should be . . . or whether he is ready to take it on. He only knows what his father tells him in dreams—that he must not fail.

Enter Drasek Riven, a former compatriot of Erevis Cale, now near divine and haunted by dreams of his own—he too knows the time to act is near. Shar, the great goddess of darkness, looks to cast her shadow on the world forever. Riven has glimpsed the cycle of night she hopes to complete, and he knows she must be stopped.

At the crossroads of divine intrigue and mortal destiny, unlikely heroes unite to thwart the powers of shadow and hell, and the sundering of worlds is set on its course.

Anyone can escape danger. No one can escape the truth.

When a ship full of Sith warriors arrived in Galactic Alliance space, the fight to destroy it accidentally uncovered a hidden menace: a long-hidden group of clones, secretly created as insidious weapons capable of wielding the Force and heedless of the differences between light side and dark side. Now the clones have escaped—and evidence suggests that they are flawed by genetic disease and violent madness.

Jedi Knight Jaden Korr pursues the clones, hoping to heal them but prepared to destroy them. What he doesn’t know is that Sith agents are hot on his heels, determined not only to recover the clones for their Master but to capture Jaden for their own dark-side purposes. In a life-or-death battle, Jaden will confront a shocking reality that will rock him to his core and bring him face-to-face with the question of what makes a man . . . and a Jedi.

An ancient Sith ship hurtles into the future carrying a lethal cargo that could forever destroy Luke Skywalker’s hopes for peace.

The Civil War is almost over when Jedi Knight Jaden Korr experiences a Force vision so intense he must act. Enlisting two salvage jocks and their ship, Jaden sets out into space. Someone—or something—appears to be in distress.

But what Jaden and his crew find confounds them. A five-thousand-year-old dreadnaught—bringing with it a full force of Sith and one lone Jedi—has inadvertently catapulted eons from the past into the present. The ship’s weapons may not be cutting-edge, but its cargo, a special ore that makes those who use the dark side nearly invincible, is unsurpassed. The ancient Jedi on board is determined to destroy the Sith. But for Jaden, even more is at stake: for his vision has led him to uncover a potentially indestructible threat to everything the Jedi Order stands for.

The stunning conclusion to the Twilight War!

One of the Forgotten Realms world's most compelling villains--the Archwizards of Shade--have come down from their flying city with their sights set on the merchant realm of Sembia. They come in the guise of allies, but have invasion and empire as their ultimate aim.

The fate of Sembia may be sealed, but Erevis Cale still has a shocking destiny that will end in his destruction--if he's lucky. This trilogy brings about major changes to the Forgotten Realms setting.

The invasion of the arch-wizards is on!

The archwizards of Shade Enclave have come out of the desert with a message of peace, and an act of war. Split by petty disputes and causeless feuds, the merchant realm of Sembia is wide open for invasion, and with no shortage of Sembians more than happy to sell out to the Shadovar, can only one man--even if that man is Erevis Cale--do anything to stop it?

Nix is a nimble thief with just enough knowledge of magic to get into serious trouble. Egil is the only priest of a discredited god. Together, they seek riches and renown, but somehow it is always misadventure and mayhem that find them—even in the dive bar they call home. And their luck has yet to change.

All Nix wants to do is cheer Egil up after a bout of heartbreak. And, of course, strike it so rich that they need never worry about their combined bar bill. But when the light-fingered scoundrel plunders a tomb and snatches mysterious golden plates covered in runes, the treasure brings terrifying trouble. Pursued by an abomination full of ravenous hunger and unquenchable wrath, Egil and Nix find all they hold dear—including their beloved tavern—in dire peril. To say nothing of the world itself.

Egil and Nix have retired, as they always said they would. No, really – they have! No more sword and hammer-play for them!

But when two recent acquaintances come calling for help, our hapless heroes find themselves up against the might of the entire Thieves Guild.

And when kidnapping the leader of the most powerful guild in the land seems like the best course of action, you know you’re in over your head…

Robbing tombs for fun and profit might not be a stable career, but Egil and Nix aren’t in it for the long-term prospects. Egil is the hammer-wielding warrior-priest of a discredited god. Nix is a roguish thief with just enough knowledge of magic to conjure up trouble. Together, they seek riches and renown, yet often find themselves enlisted in lost causes—generally against their will.

So why should their big score be any different? The trouble starts when Nix and Egil kill the demonic guardian of a long-lost crypt, nullifying an ancient pact made by the ancestors of an obscenely powerful wizard. Now the wizard will stop at nothing to keep that power from slipping away, even if it means freeing a rapacious beast from its centuries-old prison. And who better than Egil and Nix—the ones responsible for his current predicament—to perform this thankless task?