Dragons' Wrath (novel)

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Dragons' Wrath is the sixty-third Virgin New Adventures novel. It reintroduced Irving Braxiatel, whose first appearance was alongside Benny in Theatre of War, and depicts his first meeting with Benny from his point of view.

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"Trouble?"

"What makes you think that?"

"Oh, you know, the usual. Cordoned-off area, security guards swapping war stories," Benny said, smiling. "The fact that you're here."

The Gamalian Dragon — a jewel-encrusted statuette captured by the Imperator Gamaliel from the Knights of Jeneve at the legendary Battle of Bocaro.

When Bernice Summerfield gets asked on an expedition by Gamaliel's descendant, Romolo Nusek, it is an offer her department can't afford to let her refuse. But, as usual, there are a few problems.

For one thing, Nusek is an evil warlord out to consolidate his power by any means necessary. For another, there's a body in the Theatrology building — and the dead man had an appointment with Benny's old friend, the mysterious Irving Braxiatel. Most worrying of all, the Gamalian Dragon, one of the best guarded and most valuable archaeological relics in known space, seems to be lying in a battered Gladstone bag on the floor of Benny's bedroom.

Aided only by Braxiatel and historian Nicholas Clyde, Benny must unravel the dragon's ancient mystery before the warlord's plans reach completion — and an assassin closes in for the kill.

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  1. Death in the Night
  2. Meeting People
  3. Enter the Dragon
  4. The Castle of Ice and Fire
  5. Dead of Night
  6. The Grave Robbers
  7. Fighting in the Trenches
  8. Departures
  9. Nusek's Gambit
  10. Model Behaviour
  11. Knight Visitor
  12. Death in the Night
  13. Breaking Glass
  14. The Historian's Tale
  15. An Independent Inquiry
  16. Knight Moves
  17. Teetering on the Brink
  18. The Dragon and His Wrath

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  • The Knights of Jeneve a group of humans holding knowledge for the safety of all humanity, their saying is "Knowledge above all".

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This is the first appearance of Irving Braxiatel (in the Benny New Adventures). It is also the first chronological meeting of Braxiatel and Benny from Braxiatel's point of view; Benny first met him in PROSE: Theatre of War.
  • The Knights of Jeneve may be a descendant of UNIT, which was headquartered in Geneva. (TV: Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"] et al.)
  • The Knights of Jeneve would later appear in PROSE: Deadfall.

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