Ghost King

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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.

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'David Gemmell is several rungs above the good - right into the fabulous' Anne McCaffrey

Author Bio

David Gemmell's first novel, LEGEND was published in 1984, beginning his acclaimed Drenai saga. He is now widelyregarded as Britain's king of heroic fantasy. He lives in East Sussex.