Iron Pirates (Second volume)
Afterresting for a while in the secret oasis of the mysterious blue men of thedesert, Esperance continues on its way south by a sea route - Izaïn havingconvinced it to go by sea, to Bayu's great surprise. But the seas are thedomain of the "iron pirates" and their fearsome steamships clad in metal. Theysay that once on board no sailor or landlubber taken prisoner has ever left theship alive ...
Inthis volume we discover the true nature of the iron pirates and why their chiefcovets the book of Izaïn.
Meanwhile,there is a growing threat of war in the South. The book of Izaïn perhapscontains the key for a return to peace and prosperity. Esperance's mission hasthus become an interplanetary issue.
For their part, Orso and Legyria end up by going back to Esperance,before it undergoes an extraordinary new transformation with Izaïn incommand ...
Born in 1970, Johan Heliot, after having taught in a technical high school, became a full-time writer in 2002. Up to now, over seventy of his short stories and more than thirty novels have been published (by Mnemos, Denoël, Mango, Le Rocher, Folio, Syros, Flammarion...), using every imaginary genre (science-fiction, fantasy, thriller, detective). He writes both for adults and children, on his own or collaborating with Xavier Mauméjean.
Johan Heliot lives in the Vosges with his wife and his cats.
Latest publications:
Secret ADN (DNA secret), Mango, « Autres mondes », September 2008.
Relooke ta vie ! (Change your life! ) « Je bouquine » no 295, September 2008.
Steppe rouge (Red steppe), Mango, « Royaumes perdus », April 2009.
Les Fils de l'air (Sons of the air), Flammarion, « Ukronie », May 2009.