Book description
They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a
helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the
result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years
later looking to settle the score... The
""result's"" unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a
rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of
leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry
dead is because he's not yet through with it. Herewith, Sir Apropos of
Nothing -- his story in the words of the knave himself. Apropos, all too
aware of his violent and unseemly beginnings, travels to the court of
the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father,
seek retribution, and line his own pockets. However, Apropos carries the
most troublesome burden a would-be harbinger of chaos can bear: He may
well be a hero foretold, a young man of destiny. It is not a notion that
Apropos finds palatable, having very low regard for such notions as
honor, selflessness, or risking one's neck. Yet when Apropos finds
himself assigned as squire to the most senile knight in the court -- Sir
Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions, whose squires tend to have a
rather short life span -- Apropos is forced to rise to the occasion lest
he be dragged under -- permanently. His difficulties are compounded when
a routine mission to escort the King's daughter home after a long
absence goes horribly awry. Suddenly Apropos finds himself saddled with
trying to survive while dealing with a berserk phoenix, murderous
unicorns, mutated harpies, homicidal warrior kings, and -- most
problematic of all -- a princess who may or may not be a psychotic
arsonist. Featuring a hero cut from cloth similar to that of such
entertaining blackguards as Blackadder and Flashman, Sir Apropos of
Nothing is a skewed version of classic, mythic adventure that is by
turns hilarious and frightening, slapstick and serious, and filled with
drop-dead laughs and drop-dead people. Peter David is a prolific Star
Trek author whose novels include IMZADI, TRIANGLE, Q-IN-LAW, Q-SQUARED
and the NEW FRONTIER series, featuring Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the
crew of the USS Excalibur, specially created for Pocket Books.
