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    The Ship Of The Orcs
    The Ship Of The Orcs
    The Ship Of The Orcs
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    The Ship Of The Orcs

    By Alfred Bekker

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    The Ship Of The Orcs

    Fantasy novel by Alfred Bekker

     

    The size of this book is equivalent to 132 paperback pages.

     

    A ship full of wild orcs in search of gold and fortune!

     

     

    A tall man in a dark robe, his hood pulled low over his face, walked the decaying streets of nighttime Ardassa.

    Today, the ruined city represented only a mere imitation of its former grandeur. Once the second capital of the Sea Rulers' Empire, it was now ruled by the legendary Beggar King, who sent his followers all over the world. Once, in the time of the empire of the Relian sea lords, Ardassa had been a world city. Now its crumbling walls smelled of mustiness and an aura of decay had taken hold of the place. Ardassa sheltered the riffraff of the entire hemisphere. Pirates and outcasts met here, misfits, prophets of twisted cults, and scholars whose teachings were considered heresy elsewhere.

    The cowl man looked like a shadow.

    The light of the pale moon did not penetrate the darkness that filled his hood.

    There was nothing to be seen of his face.

    He walked hurriedly and almost silently through the narrow, dark alleys.

    Noise, music and quarrelsome voices came from the isolated taverns.

    Here and there a door or a window was opened and for a short moment some light penetrated the darkness of the streets of Ardassa.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfred Bekker
    Release dateMay 11, 2022
    ISBN9798201580339
    The Ship Of The Orcs
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    Alfred Bekker

    Alfred Bekker wurde am 27.9.1964 in Borghorst (heute Steinfurt) geboren und wuchs in den münsterländischen Gemeinden Ladbergen und Lengerich auf. 1984 machte er Abitur, leistete danach Zivildienst auf der Pflegestation eines Altenheims und studierte an der Universität Osnabrück für das Lehramt an Grund- und Hauptschulen. Insgesamt 13 Jahre war er danach im Schuldienst tätig, bevor er sich ausschließlich der Schriftstellerei widmete. Schon als Student veröffentlichte Bekker zahlreiche Romane und Kurzgeschichten. Er war Mitautor zugkräftiger Romanserien wie Kommissar X, Jerry Cotton, Rhen Dhark, Bad Earth und Sternenfaust und schrieb eine Reihe von Kriminalromanen. Angeregt durch seine Tätigkeit als Lehrer wandte er sich schließlich auch dem Kinder- und Jugendbuch zu, wo er Buchserien wie 'Tatort Mittelalter', 'Da Vincis Fälle', 'Elbenkinder' und 'Die wilden Orks' entwickelte. Seine Fantasy-Romane um 'Das Reich der Elben', die 'DrachenErde-Saga' und die 'Gorian'-Trilogie machten ihn einem großen Publikum bekannt. Darüber hinaus schreibt er weiterhin Krimis und gemeinsam mit seiner Frau unter dem Pseudonym Conny Walden historische Romane. Einige Gruselromane für Teenager verfasste er unter dem Namen John Devlin. Für Krimis verwendete er auch das Pseudonym Neal Chadwick. Seine Romane erschienen u.a. bei Blanvalet, BVK, Goldmann, Lyx, Schneiderbuch, Arena, dtv, Ueberreuter und Bastei Lübbe und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt.

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