The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s
prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and
the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the
Blight.
The sun has begun to set upon the Third
Age.
Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his
past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the
responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe
is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail,
he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a
way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose
himself to it forever.
Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon
prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The
creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the
Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him
hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other
men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with
them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the
Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to
dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that
cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets
will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.
This
penultimate novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York
Times bestselling series--the second of three based on
materials he left behind when he died in 2007--brings
dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the
Pattern. The end draws near.
Dovie’andi se tovya
sagain. It’s time to toss the dice.