Book description
Beyond WOLF IN SHADOW to an earlier layer in David Gemmell's fantasy of
the Sipstrassi Stones: rebellion and invasion plunge Britannia into the
Dark Ages. Chaos and terror stalk the land, the King slain by traitors,
the great Sword of Power vanished beyond the Circle of Mist. Saxons,
Angles, Jutes and Brigante tribesman mass together to destroy the realm,
aided by the powers of the Witch Queen and the Lord of the Undead.
Against them stands a weakling boy, and an old mountain warrior. But the
boy has the blood of kings, and the warrior is Culain, the legendary
Lord of the Lance. And he alone knows the dread secret of the Witch
Queen. David Gemmell's first novel, Legend, was published in 1984 and
he was widely acclaimed as Britain's king of heroic fantasy. He died in
July 2006.
