Krondor the Betrayal: Book One Of The Riftwar Legacy

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Harper Collins, Mar 17, 2009 - Fiction - 432 pages
The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle...

New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy; where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia -- a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression. It tells of mysterious deaths and sinister machinations -- and signs of a time when the fate of many civilizations rested in the able, unfaltering hands of RiftWar veterans Squire Locklear and cunning their-turned-squire Jimmy the Hand. It chronicles the powerful awakening of Owyn -- apprentice magician of untried strengths -- and celebrates the selfless achievements of Pug, the great sorcerer of two worlds. Welcome now to astonishing new corners of a world you have not yet fully explored-and prepare to experience true excitement, blood chilling terror...and the triumph born from the doom aimed at the beating heart of a kingdom.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
8
Section 3
25
Section 4
46
Section 5
61
Section 6
80
Section 7
96
Section 8
113
Section 16
285
Section 17
303
Section 18
323
Section 19
339
Section 20
357
Section 21
382
Section 22
388
Section 23
393

Section 9
134
Section 10
153
Section 11
170
Section 12
217
Section 13
233
Section 14
252
Section 15
269
Section 24
397
Section 25
401
Section 26
405
Section 27
409
Section 28
413
Section 29
417

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About the author (2009)

Raymond E. Feist is the author of more than thirty previous books, including the internationally bestselling “Riftwar Cycle” of novels set in his signature world of Midkemia; the Empire trilogy co-authored with Janny Wurts; the stand-alone novel, Faerie Tale; and the epic fantasy series, the Firemane Saga. He lives in San Diego, California.

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