The Cutting Edge

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497606067

<DIV><B>The Aurora Award&ndash;winning author of the Man of His Word novels returns to the magical realm of Pandemia with the first in his Handful of Men series.</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> For fifteen years, Queen Inos and King Rap&mdash;the former stable boy and secret sorcerer&mdash;have ruled Krasnegar wisely and happily, raising a family and prospering in their remote little kingdom.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> But a darkness is encroaching, foreshadowed by prophecies of unimagined cataclysms across Pandemia. Prince Emshandar, better known as Shandie to Krasnegar&rsquo;s royal family, is engaged in several conflicts along the Impire&rsquo;s borderlands, as armies of djinns, gnomes, and other races declare and wage war. His grandfather, the aged imperor himself, continues to behave more erratically and tyrannically with each passing hour.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Rap dismisses the warnings as superstitious nonsense and the borderland battles as far from home and none of his kingdom&rsquo;s affair. But on the night of the birth of his fourth child, Rap is visited by a god who regales him with a cryptic tale of Pandemia&rsquo;s impending doom. Once upon a time, a young sorcerer made an error, an error that now threatens to nullify the Protocol, the treaty that has controlled the use of magic for a millennium. Without the Protocol, the realm will fall into chaos and certain destruction&mdash;unless Rap embarks on a dangerous quest to right his long ago wrong .&#160;.&#160;.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The beginning of a new series by the author of the Seventh Sword novels and many other acclaimed works of fantasy, <I>The Cutting Edge</I> is &ldquo;deftly woven and set forth with a refreshingly unpretentious clarity and directness: imagine David Eddings rewritten by Kate Wilhelm. Grab this one&rdquo; (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).<BR /> &#160;</DIV>