num_pages: 640
description: Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's living a comfortable quiet life obeying the law and minding his own business while raising his son Carter ...on those occasions when he isn't having to bail him out of one scrape or another. His days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him. Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. He's bored by his humdrum life frustrated that his father won't live a little and longs for the bright lights and excitement of anywhere-but-here. He's longing for an opportunity to escape and test himself against whatever the world has to offer. Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight kidnapped by slavers and before he knows it is swept to another land. A lowly slave surrounded by technology he doesn't understand his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world. He can try to escape he can try to lead his fellow slaves or he can accept the inevitable and try to make the most of the short brutal existence remaining to him...unless Jacob gets to him first and no matter the odds he intends to. No one kidnaps his son and gets away with it - and if it come to it he'll force Kings to help him on his way he'll fight steal blackmail and betray his friends in the name of bringing Carter home. Wars will be started. Empires will fall. And the Carnehan family will be reunited one way or another...
language: English
title: In Dark Service
publisher: Gollancz