The Red Knight
core novel 2012 The Traitor Son Cycle
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (19,246 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 650 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316212281 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The opening novel of the Traitor Son Cycle unfolds in a world where an uneasy border separates the realms of ordinary men and women from the Wild, a country of monsters and fae creatures with its own claims and customs. The story follows the Red Knight, a young and highly capable mercenary captain whose company takes a contract to defend a fortified convent of nuns whose people have been killed by a wyvern. What is presented to the company as a straightforward monster-hunting job for coin soon proves to have far deeper roots, drawing the Red Knight and his soldiers into the wider, long-simmering tensions between the Wild and the kingdoms of men. The narrative follows numerous other points of view across the surrounding lands as the true scope of the danger becomes clear.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Traitor Son Cycle
- Series: The Traitor Son Cycle core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Miles Cameron
Notes
- From the series record (The Traitor Son Cycle): A completed five-novel epic fantasy sequence, written by a former professional soldier and drawing on real medieval warfare and mercenary-company logistics, following a disgraced mercenary captain defending a border country against an encroaching supernatural wilderness.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Traitor Son Cycle: position 1 of 5: next The Fell Sword (2013)
Sources
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