Empire of Silence

Author's name: Christopher Roque

Hadrian Marlowe, revered as a hero and reviled as a murderer, chronicles his life story at the beginning of the galaxy-scattering "Sun Eater" series, in a dazzling literary fusion of the finest aspects of space opera and epic fantasy.

This was never his war. On a planet he did not choose, at precisely the right time, and for the noblest of reasons, Hadrian Marlowe embarked on a path that could only end in flames. The galaxy remembers him as the man who wiped the last of the Selcenes from the skies. It also remembers him as the devil who destroyed a sun and, in cold blood, exterminated four billion human beings—including the Emperor himself—in flagrant defiance of imperial orders.

But Hadrian was no hero. He wasn't a monster. He wasn't even a soldier. Fleeing his father's tyranny and a predetermined future as one of the Empire's executioners, Hadrian finds himself trapped in a strange, forgotten world at the edge of the galaxy. There, he is forced into gladiatorial combat, drawn into the machinations of a foreign planet's court, and ultimately finds himself fighting a war he didn't start, for an Empire he doesn't love, and against an enemy he will never understand.