R. John Walker
Cover of The Bramble King: a crown of thorns hangs in a star-filled sky beneath a banded giant planet, over an orchard where a lone figure walks the path below.

The Brothers · Book One

The Bramble King

A man sets out to make himself king of a civilization spanning the stars, called the Reach, where kings have been outlawed for a thousand years, and only his brother can try to stop him.

I remember how much I looked up to my big brother as a child, how much I loved him. I still do. Caleb, from Chapter Two

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Through a study window, the sun sets behind an old corvette on her landing pad; a glass data slate stands on the desk in the foreground beside a tumbler of amber spirit and a bottle a third full.

The first lines

I look out my study window as the day is fading behind the Eben. The light reflects off her plate as she sits ancient and proud on her pad. The Bramble King, Chapter One
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The Selah, a vast, weathered starship, in orbit above a clouded world, a small craft beside it for scale.
Caleb has ships that can go where the Gates cannot. His brother has everything else. Book Two · Rule of the Seventy

The trilogy

The Brothers

“You know me now as old Caleb Adon. My brother executed our father publicly in the name of justice. He was right to do it, and from that day forward I fought him anyway.” Caleb Adon
  1. Cover of The Bramble King. Book One The Bramble King Coming 2027
  2. Cover of Rule of the Seventy: a crown of steel spikes, blue light in its cracks, hangs in a starry sky over an orchard, a planet rising gold at the end of the path where a lone man walks. Book Two Rule of the Seventy Coming 2028
  3. Cover of The Judgment of Jotham: the steel crown burns in a starry sky above a burning planet, and a lone man walks a path between rows of burning orchard trees. Book Three The Judgment of Jotham In progress
The spines of the three books side by side on a wooden shelf: The Bramble King, Rule of the Seventy and The Judgment of Jotham, each with its crown at the foot, thorn, steel and fire.

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