There are many characters and it will help to read the first book in the series to have a handle on the core characters ahead of this novel. The characters are complex and come to life through their words, actions, movements, thoughts, reactions, and mannerisms. Outnumbered and less diabolical, can courage, trust, and imagination outwit and overcome the enemy? Cayce understands that the only option is offense, not defense. However, a more radical cult of Blood Priests has arisen. This also repulsed the Holy Dominion army that was intent on killing their new allies. Lewis Cayce and his group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and mounted riflemen have made friends in the Yucatan and built an army. This series is set in the same world as the Destroyermen series. Instead of fighting in the Mexican-American war, they are fighting for their lives against both monster animals and humans. It’s 1847 and almost a year after four ships carrying Americans heading to Vera Cruz, Mexico were caught in a storm and shipwrecked on an alternative Earth. In the second book of the Artillerymen series, Taylor Anderson brings amazing world-building and characterization to this action-packed and suspenseful novel. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers-and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.
The only hope his new allies have is to win-and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory.
The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable.
He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed.įortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out.Īs an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.
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