Saint's Blood: The Greatcoats Book 3 (Greatcoats, #3)

by Sebastien de Castell

'High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW' Sam Sykes

The Greatcoats are back - and this time it's personal.

How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti and Kest are about to find out, as someone is doing just that, and they've started with a friend.

The Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne - but with Saints turning up dead, and Church Inquistitors pushing for control - rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension.

The only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find and stop the Saint-killer - but his only clue is the iron mask encasing the head of the Saint of Mercy, which prevents her from speaking. And even if he can find the murderer, he will still have to face them in battle - and this may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can win.

• ISBN10: 1782066802
• ISBN13: 9781782066804
• Publish Date: 7 April 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 5 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Imprint: Jo Fletcher Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 576
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Falcio, Kest and Brasti are investigating what or who is killing Saints, Part of it seems to be an attempt to keep Aline from ruling. Falcio has no idea who, but he's determined to find out, even if it means sacrificing himself and many of the people around him, he's going to stand up for what he believes in and a world he wants to see.
 
The banter is mostly what keeps me reading. The characters have known each other so long and are so used to each others foibles that they work as a team but not without grousing and slagging each other off. I like it and enjoy them.

[KitsuneBae]

This was still an excellent book but can we please tone down with this poisoning stuff? It's getting redundant. At the end of book 1, Falcio got poisoned with neatha and we all have to deal with his paralysis in book 2. And now, Valiana got poisoned with Adoracia and there's a big possibility that we're going to deal with her insanity for the rest of the series. Well, I am merely hoping for a more inventive way of putting our heroes in misery.