The Vagrant (The Vagrant Trilogy)

by Peter Newman

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other.

Years have passed since humanity’s destruction emerged from the Breach.

Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape.

As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde.

His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war.

What little hope remains is dying. Abandoned by its leader, The Seven, and its heroes, The Seraph Knights, the last defences of a once great civilisation are crumbling into dust.

But the Shining City is far away and the world is a very dangerous place.

• ISBN13: 9780007593132
• Publish Date: 25 February 2016 (first published 23 April 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperVoyager
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 416
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

This reminded me of China Mieville in the weird bodies and dropping you to flounder in the middle of a story way. I don't mean this disparagingly but I had to re-read the last few chapters to really get what had happened, and I don't do that often.

When the demons came the armies led by the Seraph Knights tried to hold them back, but they failed. Now the entities from the breach use human bodies like components in a strange jigsaw, sometimes taking over bodies wholesale, and infecting others with their taint. Into this walks a man with a sword, a baby and a mission, he wants to reach the Shining City the last bastion of the human race and to deliver a weapon.

Oh man, this was pretty powerful stuff, full of twists and turns and slightly red-herrings but at the core a character who is determined to do the right thing and works well against his inability to speak.