Renegade Arts Entertainment has published the third and final installment in Bill Slavin’s multi-award-winning Mordecai Crow Trilogy, Blood and Fire, and The Beat has an exclusive preview of the story’s conclusion.
We are taken back in time to see Crow’s ravaged world through the eyes of his mother, Raven. Snatching up the threads from the first two books, Raven’s story weaves a tale of blood and fire that leads to an action-packed climax played out on the embattled ramparts of Ironcast, throne of the merciless ruler of the Luddites, Lord Pyke.
Why has the crazed bandit chieftain Zeya delivered Crow into the hands of the Luddites? Will stalwart Podd, with the help of the Baker’s Dozen crew of misfits, succeed in finding his friend once again? And most importantly, will our hero Mordecai Crow finally unravel the secrets of his lost past?
Against the rumblings of war and intrigue, all will be made clear.
The Mordecai Crow Trilogy debuted in 2023 with Secrets of Jarrow, which was followed by last year’s Quid Pro Crow. In case you haven’t been keeping up, here’s more about the series as a whole:
In a future where the secrets of the past have been lost, and knowledge is forbidden, technology hating Luddites have triumphed over a world of scarce resources and devastating, unpredictable weather. Across the ruined landscape of this destroyed civilization, small pockets of Gnostic resistance have preserved the knowledge housed in the scattered remains of pre-Cloud ‘tek’ in refuges called Firewalls.
Mordecai Crow is a drifter, stuck between two worlds and belonging to neither. Born a Gnostic, survivors of a global meltdown that strive to regain lost knowledge, he was raised by Luddites, a war-like faction of fanatical anti-tech fundamentalists with an evangelical agenda. His search for the answers to his past led him on a perilous quest through a dangerously divided land.
Check out interior and cover art from Blood and Fire below.
Blood and Fire (Mordecai Crow #3) is available everywhere books are sold.
