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Hasting reflects on a lifetime consumed by revenge, recounting the loves taken from him and the people he pursued to undo his wrongs. After years among the Great City of Miklagard and the Mediterranean, he gains an opportunity on the windswept shores of Crete to strike against Karbeas and Honorius, former Roman commanders now in rebellion. A planned assault with imperial forces aims to retake the island in God’s and the empire’s name, while Hasting’s motive remains vengeance.","Map  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nMore by C. J. Adrien Historical Note About the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE SNARE OF VENGEANCE  \nThe Saga of Hasting the Avenger  \nBook 6  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 C. J. Adrien  \nThis edition 2026 published by Vinci Books All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis one is for Léo.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“These were a people known to everyone for their barbarity, ferocity, and  \ncruelty.”  \n—The Life of Saint George of Amastris, recounting early Byzantine encounters with the Rus, possibly as early as 806 A.D.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE AVENGER  \nThe Christians fear an afterlife of hellfire. It awaits those who sin and do not atone, so they say. But that fire rages in Miðgard already. It burns especially close to those men who dwell on vengeance, such as I.  \nI had spent my life seeking revenge for the wrongs done to me. Asa, Skírlaug, Morgana, Myrna, each a love taken by men who would seek to undo me. For each I sought vengeance with all the fury and rage of my race. But how many others had to die to satisfy my bloodthirst? How many loves had I taken from others? And how many more would I have to lose before I learned that vengeance had nothing to offer me but ash on the tongue?  \nOn the windswept shores of Crete, two years after we arrived in the Great City of Miklagard and the Mediterranean, I had my chance at yet another act of vengeance. The men I sought, Karbeas and Honorius, both former commanders of the Roman army turned rebels, and the men who had killed the love of my life, Myrna, had holed up in an old Roman fortress with their Arab allies, expecting our assault. Bjorn and I had joined Theoktistos, a eunuch of small stature and frail disposition with not a hair on his body, co-regent of the empire, to retake Crete in the name of God, the Empire, and the Roman people. But for me, it was for revenge.  \n“Karbeas!” I roared, stepping out into the open before his archers.  \n“Hasting,” he replied, still hiding behind his walls.“Here to demand my surrender?”","cbCaiaP4IZu7x1bF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaP4IZu7x1bF","pdf",3918700,280,"English","en",105,"# Chapter 1\n# Chapter 2\n# Chapter 3\n# Chapter 4\n# Chapter 5\n# Chapter 6\n# Chapter 7\n# Chapter 8\n# Chapter 9\n# Chapter 10\n# Chapter 11\n# Chapter 12\n# Chapter 13\n# Chapter 14\n# Chapter 15\n# Chapter 16\n# Chapter 17\n# Chapter 18\n# Chapter 19\n# Chapter 20","[{\"question\":\"What theme drives Hasting’s actions in Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"Hasting is driven by vengeance, questioning what it costs him emotionally and morally and whether it can ever bring something real beyond destruction.\"},{\"question\":\"Where does the story’s main confrontation opportunity arise?\",\"answer\":\"The opportunity arises on the windswept shores of Crete, where Hasting targets Karbeas and Honorius.\"},{\"question\":\"Who are the key figures involved in the Crete assault?\",\"answer\":\"Hasting teams with Bjorn and Theoktistos to retake Crete, while Karbeas and Honorius have fortified themselves in an old Roman fortress with Arab allies.\"}]","The Snare of Vengeance - 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