Putnam
October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
Featuring: Mayhew Gordian
ISBN: 0399176977 EAN: 9780399176975 Kindle: B00SI0B5YY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Two new, original novellas—Donaldson's first publication
since finishing the Thomas Covenant series—are a sure cause
for celebration among his many fans.
In "The King's Justice," a stranger dressed in black
arrives
in the village of Settle's Crossways, following the scent
of
a terrible crime. He even calls himself "Black," though
almost certainly that is not his name. The people of the
village discover that they have a surprising urge to
cooperate with this stranger, though the desire of
inhabitants of quiet villages to cooperate with strangers
is
not common in their land, or most lands. But this gift will
not save him as he discovers the nature of the evil
concealed in Settle's Crossways.
The "Augur's Gambit" is a daring plan created by Mayhew
Gordian, Hieronomer to the Queen of Indemnie, a plan to
save
his Queen and his country. Gordian is a reader of entrails.
In the bodies of chickens, lambs, piglets, and one
stillborn
infant he sees the same message: the island nation of
Indemnie is doomed. But even in the face of certain
destruction a man may fight, and the Hieronomer is utterly
loyal to his beautiful Queen--and to her only daughter. The
"Augur's Gambit" is his mad attempt to save a kingdom.
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