Book description
He's back. By (and in some cases, despite) popular demand, Sir Apropos
of Nothing once again stalks the pages of literature, leaving
unmistakable footprints wherever he treads. Apropos is the unlikely
noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang
assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last
time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended
up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the
kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern
owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee
re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on
her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen. She
tells Apropos that it's not true. Thus the medieval era's most notorious
antihero suddenly finds himself once again in the middle of events of
which he wants no part. Apropos, a helpless cog in destiny's gear
mechanism, is hauled into the middle of another unlikely adventure that
finds him dying of thirst and exhaustion in the gods-forsaken desert
known as the Tragic Waste. But death is far too simple a fate for
Apropos. When he awakens, he is astounded to discover that he is now a
fearsome scourge of the land known as Wuin...a deadly and despised
""peacelord"" (the politically correct term for
""warlord"") with tens of thousands of troops at his
command, cities filled with helpless people trembling before him, and an
adoring and sexy consort. How he came to this, what he will do once he
discovers the terrible price attached to his new station in life, and
how the mystic gem called the Eye of the Beholder fits into all of it
are just a few of the challenges our reluctant hero will encounter along
the Woad to Wuin. 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.
