Voice of Command

by Richard Swan

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2026

About the author

Richard Swan is a critically acclaimed British genre writer. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf, Great Silence, and Decurion series, and fiction for Black Library and Grimdark Magazine. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Richard is a qualified lawyer, and before writing full time spent ten years litigating multimillion pound commercial disputes in London. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three young sons.


For updates follow him at stonetemplelibrary.com.

Reviews

[slop savant]

This was excellent?? I am genuinely flat footed here, what a wonderful full length debut for Richard Swan. The characters have meaningful tensions, and despite it being cadians which feels a bit rote at this point, blends against their own insecurities and trauma in a meaningful story.