Book Description
New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist has
created a world unlike any other-a sprawling kingdom coveted
by enemies on all sides; a bustling center of commerce and
magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict; a place of
unparalleled wonders where great heroes are bred to be
ever-vigilant of those who would succumb to evil's
seductions. This is Midkemia and its glorious center,
Krondor-now imperiled by an insidious malignancy that grows
from within.
A plague of murder has overrun Krondor. Prince
Arutha-newly returned from battle with the Morehdel chieftain
Delekhan and the renegade magician Makala-is concerned about
the rash of unexplained assassinations in his capital city.
And so he dispatches his most trusted agent, Squire
James-formerly the thief known as Jimmy the Hand-to discover
the source of the deadly epidemic.
James's hunt will lead him to the dank depths of
Krondor-through subterranean tunnel and sewer system to a
terrible war that is raging in secret far beneath the
streets. For here rival criminal gangs are locked in a death
struggle for control of a city's vice-dangerous gangsters who
go by the name "Mockers"and others in the
thrall of a mysterious being known as "The
Crawler." But the deeper the delves, the closer Squire
James gets to the true nature of the horror that has already
left untold dead in its wake-a nightmare of corruption and
deceit that threatens to destroy his liege and reduce Krondor
to ruins. Ensnared by dark, intricate plots and dastardly
magic, James must now race to prevent one last murder-the one
craven, unthinkable slaying that will plunge Krondor into the
all-consuming flames of war without quarter.
