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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100312874960
ISBN-139780312874964
eBay Product ID (ePID)30774307
Product Key Features
Edition6
Book TitleMaster of the Cauldron
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year2004
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Drake
Book SeriesLord of the Isles Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight26.4 Oz
Item Length9.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-051690
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number6
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisGarric or-Reise was born the son of an innkeeper in Barca's Hamlet on the Isle of Haft, but through valor and determination became first a prince and then the Regent and successor to the feeble Valence III, King of the Isles. But the Kingdom is weak, its rule barely extending past the island of Ornifal.The Isles need a strong king to bring unity, because danger is coming. Magic is stronger now than at any time since the fall of the Old Kingdom in a cataclysm of uncontrolled magic. Evil is growing in the spaces beyond the world, waiting to complete the destruction begun a millennium before. Only if the Isles are united into a strong New Kingdom can humanity survive.Garric has sworn to become a true Lord of the Isles. Standing with him are his sister, Sharina; his friend and Sharina's lover, the shepherd Cashel; and Cashel's sister, the weaver-witch Ilsa. They have been to Hell and back together in their quest.The four friends and the armies of the Kingdom have undertaken a Royal Progress to renew the bonds of fealty among the Isles. Now they come to Sandrakkan, which fought a long and bloody war with Haft less than a generation ago.On Sandrakkan, Wilduf's Countess, Balila, schemes with her court wizard to destroy the boy king from the hated isle of Haft. Strange evils lurk on demon-haunted Volita, and she will wake them all if necessary to make her husband the new King of the Isles.Rich with action, guile, and heroism in the face of dangers both physical and moral, Master of the Cauldron stands alone or as part of a ground-breaking fantasy epic.
I have purchased and read more of David Drake's works than most because I like his way of researching his stories and then telling them. Cannot recall my last disappointment with one.