<p><b>Melville¿s <i>Moby Dick</i> unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in <i>Black Leviathan</i>, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies.</b><br><br><i>Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from whence it was born at the beginning of time.</i><br><br>In the coastal city Skargakar, residents make a living from hunting dragons and use them for everything from clothing to food, while airborne ships hunt them in the white expanse of a cloud sea, the Cloudmere.<br><br>Lian does his part carving the kyrillian crystals that power the ships through the Cloudmere, but when he makes an enemy of a dangerous man, Lian ships out on the next vessel available as a drachenjager, or dragon hunter.<br><br>He chooses the wrong ship. A fanatic captain, hunts more than just any dragon. His goal is the Firstborn Gargantuan¿and Adaron is prepared to sacrifice everything for revenge.</p>