The Swords of Night and Day (Skilgannon the Damned 2) |
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 | David Gemmell's latest heroic fantasy The Swords of Night and Day, latest in the Drenai series, stars the tormented swordsman Skilgannon the Damned and opens a thousand years after his debut in White Wolf (2003). Reincarnation is the secret, of course. Having died in his final battle and spent a fraught millennium in the Void, Skilgannon is deliberately brought back to take up his swords and fulfil a prophecy. Other revenants include the body though not the soul of his old comrade-in-arms Druss the Legend, and more than one form of this era's tyrannical queen the Eternal, a woman once very important to our hero. This queen not only controls overwhelming armies but is literally eternal because technomagical wizardry makes death, for her, no more than a minor interruption. Her current lover is an obsessed psychopath carrying the only swords more deadly and cursed than Skilgannon's, the Swords of Blood and Fire. The land is infested with sorcerously created man-beast "Joinings"; in an ... read more.
Written by David Gemmell.
Published 01 April 2005.
Published by Corgi Books.
rrp £7.99.
419 pages Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN: 0552146781
ISBN-13: 9780552146784 | |
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