Vladimir Duran

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2012
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Rising Knight

1 - Carnage (Nov-2012)
2 - Born for War (Oct-2012)
3 - Destruction's Children (Mar-2013)
4 - King's Knight (Dec-2013)
13 - Assault (Oct-2012)
14 - Champion (Oct-2012)
15 - Stalking (Oct-2012)
16 - Naming (Oct-2012)
17 - Hunting (Nov-2012)
18 - Cleaners (Nov-2012)
20 - Superhero (Nov-2012)
21 - Failure (Dec-2012)
22 - Learning (Dec-2012)
23 - Migraine (Dec-2012)
24 - Apathy (Dec-2012)
25 - Dropping the Gauntlet (Mar-2013)
26 - Heir to Sin (Apr-2013)
27 - The Brothers Blackblade (Apr-2013)
28 - Safe Passage (Apr-2013)
30 - Holy ground (May-2013)
34 - In The Dark (Jun-2013)
35 - The Black Hammer (Jun-2013)
37 - Lion Among Wolves (Dec-2013)
38 - Scarred (Dec-2013)
39 - Fire and Smoke (Jan-2014)
40 - Falling Scales (Jan-2014)
41 - Civics (Jan-2014)
42 - History (Jan-2014)
43 - Humanities (Jan-2014)
44 - Legends (Jan-2014)
45 - Fight (Jan-2014)
46 - The Other Side (Jan-2014)
47 - The Trick (Jan-2014)
48 - Everything that has an End (Oct-2012)
49 - Eagle (Jul-2013)
50 - Black Lion (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • Carnage (Variant A)

  • Negotiator

    After a year spent covered in the muck and blood of battle and death Vlad has changed. The wraith has become infamous. He's fought and there have been victories losses and sacrifices and nothing has changed. It's time for a new direction. Unfortunate...

  • Declaration

    A Rising Knight: Vol1, Issue 9. It's time to meet the other side of the coin. Gaidan Blackblade, High Councilor of the Wizard Empire has just had a gauntlet thrown at his feet. He will not pick it up in fury and in fire. That is not his...

  • Rebirth

    A Rising Knight: Vol1, Issue 11. There is no power without price and no rebirth without pain. In the aftermath of his battle with the demon Vlad's body begins to change, transforming into the body of a wizard. This will not be easy. Vlad...

  • Assault

    A Rising Knight - 13

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss1Welcome back to the war. It missed you. Follow Vlad’s declaration of revolution it’s time to put up or shut up. He’ll have to fight through a fully manned military strong hold as a one man raiding party. Will the memo...

  • Born for War

    A Rising Knight - 2

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2 What’s the difference between a soldier and a warrior? What’s the difference between those who live in the world and those who shape it? Power. Pain. Purpose. Arrogance. Rage. Fearlessness. Determination. Welcome back t...

  • Champion

    A Rising Knight - 14

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss2In the wake of Vlad’s decision last issue its time to shift focus to the other side of the story. How do the other Knights live knowing that they are under a death sentence? What kind of choices do they have to make to cr...

  • Everything that has an End

    A Rising Knight - 48

    A Rising Knight Vol1He was a killer by fifteen, a warrior by sixteen, a revolutionary by seventeen, a legend by eighteen, he won't live to be nineteen. If you knew fire and death awaited would you still take that first step? These are Steps he will t...

  • Naming

    A Rising Knight - 16

    Naming A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss4 Giving something a name gives it power, form, substance and most importantly of all, meaning. What will change for Vlad when he leans the name for precisely what he is? Will he buy in or will he reject t...



  • Stalking

    A Rising Knight - 15

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss3After a week of experimentation and self-training with his new powers Vlad feels something change. Like a whirlpool in the very fabric of the world, drawing him closer to something new, something like him. This is the first...

  • Pretender

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss6There are those who make the mess and those who clean it up. These are the people who clean up after Vlad. The ones who hide the ripples of his existence and pay the price for protecting the world. This is the price they pa...

  • Carnage

    A Rising Knight - 1

    A legend is made the moment you deiced the cost is worth the journey. The moment you decided your life is worth fighting for, bleeding for, and killing for. This is the moment Vlad will choose between murderer or victim. This is the moment the legend...

  • Cleaners

    A Rising Knight - 18

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss6There are those who make the mess and those who clean it up. These are the people who clean up after Vlad. The ones who hide the ripples of his existence and pay the price for protecting the world. This is the price they pa...

  • Hunting

    A Rising Knight - 17

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue 5There is a moment in the life of ever man and woman. It’s the one where you decide that fate is what you make it. When you decide the monsters have had it good long enough and it’s time to put them away. It’s t...

  • Superhero

    A Rising Knight - 20

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue 8When you spend most of you time fighting a war you’re not sure you can win, the little things that take you out of your head become important. They keep you from going insane. In order to protect that, you might do...

  • Apathy

    A Rising Knight - 24

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue12Excepting hatred or fear, apathy has done more evil in the world than just about anything. It lets you walk by the outstretched hand, ignore the crying child, the black eye. It lets the gods look down on the world, k...

  • Failure

    A Rising Knight - 21

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue 9 Everything falls, everything burns, and even Knights do not live forever. Breaking his own rules for once Vlad has to lead a younger Knight to safety beyond the cities and the reach of the Knight Hunters. Ru...

  • Learning

    A Rising Knight - 22

    A Rising Knight: Vol2, Iss10 Sometimes putting the world together, means first taking it apart. It means letting go of your preconceived notions and accepting that things might not be the way you imagined them. It's time for Vlad to get out o...

  • Migraine

    A Rising Knight - 23

    A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue 11Your perspective determines your reality. It can broaden or limit our opportunities, turn triumph into tragedy and choke off the person you are meant to be. Vlad was born and raised a pessimist and it has cost in fr...



  • Destruction's Children

    A Rising Knight - 3

    Why do you fight? Why do you pay the price? Destruction's Children brings the war home for the Knights of the revolution. Jackal is forced to relive his mother's brutal death while Olga dreams of getting blood on her hands. Vlad reaches a pi...

  • Dropping the Gauntlet

    A Rising Knight - 25

    Why do people climb mountains, jump out of planes or wrestle alligators? Because they’re there. Because only by pushing yourself, mind and body, can you hope to make yourself stronger. Vlad, Jack and Olga need to be stronger. Strong enough to fight...

  • Limits

    There is a moment in the life of ever man and woman. It's the one where you decide that fate is what you make it. When you decide the monsters have had it good long enough and it's time to put them away. It's the moment you stop being the hunted a...

  • The Brothers Blackblade

    A Rising Knight - 27

    Always two there are. One brother born to wage the war the other to defend the home. Jackal and Hyena are the prey dogs of the house of the Black Blade and there is more than blood between them. Once they were as close as right hand and left. But...

  • Heir to Sin

    A Rising Knight - 26

    Even in a city flying beyond the clouds, one as alien as it is beautiful, some things never change. Fathers are indulgent of their daughters while mothers take them to task. Except most families aren’t in a silent fight for survival against a ruthl...

  • Safe Passage

    A Rising Knight - 28

    And there shall come an unholy trinity. With Knight Hunters stalking around every corner, two lives hang in the balance. Jack and Olga work in the shadows to save their people while the Wraith takes center stage and does what he does best. Introduce ...

  • Inherently selfish

    Dealing with Gangsters is nothing new for Vlad, but this isn’t his crowd of lovable hoods. These are bad men with bad intentions and he’s there to get his hands dirty. Its mobster, guns, counterfeit money and hellfire when the Russians ...

  • Jarheads

    Before the Carnage and the bloodletting, before he learned to kill, Vlad had to learn how to heal. Where better than a warzone in the Middle East? A squad of marines are going to teach him a lesson about what happens when you get caught lyi...

  • Holy ground

    A Rising Knight - 30

    On the heels of last issue’s shattering conclusions Vlad goes on a pilgrimage. The Cairn of Bones, site of the battle of the Blood Ocean awaits. But the Cairn is no mere monument. It is the throne of the bitter dead. The dead are waiting and the de...

  • Creating Destruction

    After the devastating events of last issue Vlad goes back to the drawing board. He had come to a dark place to find a way forward. Except…there isn't one. Everything he's done has either ended in failure or eventually will. What do you do when...



  • Fire's Shadow

    There are eyes the dark…they burn. The Wraith has come to keep his promise, all who help the Knight Hunters will die. Simple words in the abstract. But what will he do when confronted by a mother fighting to get back to her family. Will the mo...

  • The Black Hammer

    A Rising Knight - 35

    No advantage is ever absolute. The turn of a card at the wrong moment can take it all away. In battle with a Harrower battleship Wriath will learn what it is to be on the receiving end of an assault. It’s a battle on the high seas as Wraith goes he...

  • In The Dark

    A Rising Knight - 34

    In the dark there are no secrets, no lies or evasions. Whit is the reason Vlad found any kind of faith in humanity. And he’s been lying to her for years. Not the truth is coming out. The truth of who he is and why he is and why he shouldn ...

  • Eagle

    A Rising Knight - 49

    Before the Blood Ocean and the Fall that came after, the Harrower Knights, the Deathwings, ruled the sky. Sent on a grave mission in the midst of a desperate battle, one Knight will find her moment. With the fate of her legion and a city hanging in t...

  • Carnage (Remastered)

    A legend is made the moment you deiced the cost is worth the journey. The moment you decided your life is worth fighting for, bleeding for, and killing for. This is the moment Vlad will choose between murderer or victim. This is the moment the legend...

  • King's Knight

    A Rising Knight - 4

    Wriath is coming and war is coming with him. Vlad has walked three journeys on his path to becoming a Harrower, a King’s Knight. And they have all lead back to the wizard world. To the place he had been an outcast freak, a hated reminder of days go...

  • Lion Among Wolves

    A Rising Knight - 37

    Charging into the teeth of an enemy stronghold, Wraith has come to play. Hundreds of guards stand between him and goal, like a pack of wolves hungry to take down a lion. Blood, battle, death and destruction will shake every corridor and corner. Lives...

  • Scarred

    A Rising Knight - 38

    Some scars you can't see. Some you wish you hadn't. In an all-out battle to the death Wraith comes face to face with the commander of the Knight Hunters. The woman leading the genocide of his people. Its hate at first sight. There will be no mercy wh...

  • Civics

    A Rising Knight - 41

    Without knowing where we come from, how can we know where we're supposed to go? Since becoming a wizard Vlad has worked himself to the bone to learn everything he can. To be the best there is. He's fought demons and ridden storms. But on the eve of h...

  • Falling Scales

    A Rising Knight - 40

    Everything you know is wrong. NSA agents Alexander Renault and Francis Duffy have been chasing a legend for two and a half years. Now that legend had them as its mercy. Wraith will take away what they think they know, who they think they are, their f...



  • Fight

    A Rising Knight - 45

    The wizards think they've won a victory. They think they've humiliated Wraith and made him mortal like them. But three years of struggle, combat and pain Wraith isn't ready to lay down and die. So he's going to show the wizards they know nothing of w...

  • Fire and Smoke

    A Rising Knight - 39

    Out of the ashes of his battle with the head of the inquisition Wraith rises like a monster out of myth. His for is shadow, his breath is flame. He's come to kill Giadan Blackblade, the man who orders that his people should die. At long last they wil...

  • History

    A Rising Knight - 42

    Empires are built on choices and moments. Their history rested on the back of those who fought and died for them. Fought and died for the died for the dream of something greater something lasting beyond themselves. Alone in the heart of the empire of...

  • Humanities

    A Rising Knight - 43

    When you reach the place where the road ends, what do you do? For almost a year Vlad has worked to learn what it means to be a wizard. And now he had. It means Blood and death and never giving up no matter how many times you get knocked down. But...

  • Legends

    A Rising Knight - 44

    The wizard empire of the destroyer was forged in fire and blood. They were raised in the muck and blood of battle. Wizards have fought, they have been broken and they have risen. And they began as children looking up to their elder brother. Taking th...

  • The Other Side

    A Rising Knight - 46

    When Wraith challenged the wizards of the city of lightning he knew he was lighting a powder keg. Now the battle has come to a single unit of soldiers. Untrained and alone they'll have to survived going head to head with Wraith's doppelg?ngers. Ea...

  • The Trick

    A Rising Knight - 47

    Bones have been broken, blood spilled, lived ended. All because of two men who want one another dead. Wraith, Knight out of the old world come to wreck vengeance on those who oppress his people. And Gaidan Blackblade, High Councilor who deems his...

  • Black Lion

    A Rising Knight - 50

    Burning Stone, the wizard city of flame, has fallen. Betrayal opened the way for demons to come and rip out its heart. Before the long night is done the demons will make the city theirs. A new Necropolis to plague the world. Alone and without magic, ...

  • Ink

    The chase is on! There’s a demon loose and Rhea’s the only one who can catch the monster before it destroys the wizard city. From the outer docks, to the sunken underwater city, to the very heart of the ocean, it's a bone breaking battle and a no...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vladimir Duran has published 48 books.

Vladimir Duran does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ink, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Vladimir Duran, Carnage (Variant A), was published in April 2012.

Yes. Vladimir Duran has 1 series.
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