The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: Lethal Consignment E-Book

Shaun Hamill

• Herausgeber: Titan Books
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Serie: The Heroic Legends Series
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 34

Beschreibung

Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today's top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery. In a port city in Zingara, Conan of Cimmeria drinks away the last of his meager purse. He's considering robbing one of the city's noble houses when he's approached by a man named Flavio, first mate on a ship called Fortune's Dawn. The Dawn is seeking mercenaries to transport valuable cargo to Aquilonia, the very heart of civilization. Conan is suspicious, but also deeply curious and in sore need of the coin, so he takes the job. His suspicions only deepen as he meets the reticent, sparse crew of the ship. However, Conan only realizes the severity of danger he's walked into when a terrible scream reveals a crew member dead and mutilated on the deck. Armed with only his wits and his sword, Conan must figure out the mysteries of Fortune's Dawn before the same fate befalls him.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

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Copyright

Map

Lethal Consignment

1 A Proposition of Employment

2 The Fortune’s Dawn

3 Screams in the Night

4 Leonidos’ Tale

5 The Truth Revealed

6 The Creature

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CONAN: LETHAL CONSIGNMENT

E-book edition ISBN: 9781803366500

Published by Titan Books

A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd

144 Southwark St, London SE10UP

www.titanbooks.com

First edition: April 2024

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this short story are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead (except for satirical purposes), is entirely coincidental.

© 2024 Conan Properties International (“CPI”). CONAN, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, HYBORIA, THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN and related logos, names and character likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of CPI. ROBERT E. HOWARD is a trademark or registered trademark of Robert E. Howard Properties LLC. Heroic Signatures is a trademark of Cabinet Licensing LLC.

Shaun Hamill asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

CONAN:

LETHAL CONSIGNMENT

SHAUN HAMILL

NOTE: This story is intended to take place before Robert E. Howard’s The Tower of the Elephant.

A PROPOSITION OF EMPLOYMENT

It was late afternoon in the Zingaran capital of Kordava, and the tavern was nearly empty. Most of the regulars wouldn’t be in for a couple of hours, so the bartender, Mugido, had little to do besides check his stores, clean his mugs, and keep an eye on the youth drinking in the corner.

The young man wore dun-colored, threadbare trousers and shirt, out of keeping with the flamboyant styles often favored by the locals, and this marked him as a foreigner as surely as his ice-blue eyes. He was also larger than most Zingarans, his shoulders broad and imposing, even as he slouched forward like a lazy teenager. A sheathed broadsword lay on the table in front of him as he stared out the window that offered a view of the ships in the harbor below.

Something about the youth made Mugido uneasy.

Despite the boy’s sullen bearing, the threat of violence seemed to radiate from him, as though, at the merest prompting, he could wreak a great deal of damage. So, despite the fact that the lad had ordered only a single ale since his arrival an hour earlier, the bartender didn’t harass him, or try to coax him into buying more drinks. Rather, he let the youth drink in peace, and when a second figure darkened the tavern’s doorway, he breathed a sigh of relief. At least he wouldn’t be alone any longer with this imposing stranger.

The new customer was a compact, ruddy-faced man whose manner of dress—a wide-brimmed hat, puffed shirt sleeves, and knee-high boots—marked him as a Zingaran sailor of some rank. A captain, or first mate, at least. His clothing was black and red, and he wore a long sword at his side. For a wonder, he smiled when he spotted the youth in the corner.

The Zingaran sailor stopped at the bar and placed a coin upon the wood. “Two ales, please.”