Book description
Fifty years from now, our world is unrecognisable. Pollution and
warfare have poisoned the skies, the water and the soil. Pockets of
society still exist, living in highly fortified strongholds, while those
outside the walls roam the landscape - either predator or prey. But even
these isolated compounds are not safe; armies of demons and once-men
assault their defences, and inevitably, one by one, they succumb.
Civilisation has fallen and anarchy is the only law. It will be up to
others to usher in the New . . . Terry Brooks was a practising
attorney for many years, but now writes full-time. His first novel, THE
SWORD OF SHANNARA, remained on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list for
five months, and he is widely regarded to have started the post-Tolkien
boom in epic fantasy.
