Book description
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's
internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest
fantasy epic of the modern age.
A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume
in the series.
The Starks are scattered.
Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the
old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his
youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei
Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark
remains their captive.
Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the
Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and
Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart. 'Of
those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R. R. Martin
is by far the best'
Time Magazine
'Colossal, staggering… all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of
the Roses or Imperial Rome'
SFX
'The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy
writers away shaking their heads… Its ambition: to construct the Twelve
Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat
the Borgias'
Guardian George R. R. Martin is the author of fourteen novels,
including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of
short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature
films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
