Imager's Challenge
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Authors: Jr. L. E. Modesitt
Imager’s
Challenge
Tor Books by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Imager Portfolio
Imager
Imager’s Challenge
The Corean Chronicles
Legacies
Darknesses
Scepters
Alector’s Choice
Cadmian’s Choice
Soarer’s Choice
The Lord-Protector’s Daughter
The Saga of Recluce
The Magic of Recluce
The Towers of the Sunset
The Magic Engineer
The Order War
The Death of Chaos
Scion of Cyador
Fall of Angels
The Chaos Balance
The White Order
Colors of Chaos
Magi’i of Cyador
Wellspring of Chaos
Ordermaster
Natural Ordermage
Mage-Guard of Hamor
Arms-Commander
(forthcoming)
The Spellsong Cycle
The Soprano Sorceress
The Spellsong War
Darksong Rising
The Shadow Sorceress
Shadowsinger
The Ecolitan Matter
Empire & Ecolitan
(comprising
The Ecolitan Operation
and
The Ecologic Secession
)
Ecolitan Prime
(comprising
The Ecologic Envoy
and
The Ecolitan Enigma
)
The Forever Hero
(comprising
Dawn for a Distant
Earth, The Silent Warrior,
and
In Endless Twilight
)
Timegod’s World
(comprising
Timediver’s Dawn
and
The Timegod
)
The Ghost Books
Of Tangible Ghosts
The Ghost of the Revelator
Ghost of the White Nights
Ghost of Columbia
(comprising
Of Tangible Ghosts
and
The Ghost of the Revelator
)
The Hammer of Darkness
The Green Progression
The Parafaith War
Adiamante
Gravity Dreams
Octagonal Raven
Archform: Beauty
The Ethos Effect
Flash
The Eternity Artifact
The Elysium Commission
Viewpoints Critical
Haze
Imager’s
ChallengeThe Second Book of the
Imager Portfolio
L. E. M
ODESITT
, J
R
.
A T
OM
D
OHERTY
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SSOCIATES
B
OOK
NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
IMAGER’S CHALLENGE: THE SECOND BOOK OF THE IMAGER PORTFOLIO
Copyright © 2009 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
All rights reserved.
Map by Jackie Aher
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Modesitt, L. E.
Imager’s challenge : the second book of the Imager portfolio /
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
p. cm. — (Imager portfolio ; 2)
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 978-0-7653-2126-8
I. Title.
PS3563.O264I44 2009
813'.54—dc22
2009019454
First Edition: October 2009
Printed in the United States of America
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For David and Carol Ann Nyman
CHARACTERS
CIVIC PATROL
Artois | Commander of Patrollers |
Cydarth | Subcommander of Patrollers |
Harraf | Captain, Third District |
Warydt | Lieutenant, Third District |
Mardoyt | Lieutenant, Headquarters |
HIGH HOLDERS
Ryel D’Alte
Irenya D’Ryel [Wife]
Johanyr D’Imager [Disinherited Son]
Dulyk D’Ryel [Son and Heir]
Iryela D’Ryel [Daughter]
Alynat D’Ryel [Nephew]
Suyrien D’Alte [Chief Councilor]
Kandryl D’Suyrien-Alte [Younger son]
IMAGERS
