A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book ThreeTHE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A STORM OF SWORDS Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. . . . But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . . . |
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... Mance Rayder and his wildlings were flowing down the same way . Thoren Smallwood had returned in a lather three days past . While he was telling the Old Bear what his scouts had seen , his man Kedge Whiteye told the rest of them ...
... Mance Rayder and his wildlings were flowing down the same way . Thoren Smallwood had returned in a lather three days past . While he was telling the Old Bear what his scouts had seen , his man Kedge Whiteye told the rest of them ...
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... Mance Rayder started out a crow . I could be a king same as him , and have me some wives . Craster had nineteen , not even counting the young ones , the daughters he hadn't gotten around to bedding yet . Half them wives were as old and ...
... Mance Rayder started out a crow . I could be a king same as him , and have me some wives . Craster had nineteen , not even counting the young ones , the daughters he hadn't gotten around to bedding yet . Half them wives were as old and ...
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... Mance Rayder's lads . They won't stand there with their arms out and their leaves rustling , oh no . They'll come right at you , screaming in your face , and I bet you'll piss those breeches . One o ' them will plant his axe right ...
... Mance Rayder's lads . They won't stand there with their arms out and their leaves rustling , oh no . They'll come right at you , screaming in your face , and I bet you'll piss those breeches . One o ' them will plant his axe right ...
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... Mance Rayder himself . Elsewhere their fighters will be spread thin along the line of march . They have oxen , mules , horses ... but few enough . Most will be afoot , and ill - armed and untrained . Such weapons as they carry are more ...
... Mance Rayder himself . Elsewhere their fighters will be spread thin along the line of march . They have oxen , mules , horses ... but few enough . Most will be afoot , and ill - armed and untrained . Such weapons as they carry are more ...
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... Mance Rayder himself , if we find him . If they break and return to their hovels , we've won . If not , we'll harry them all the way to the Wall , and see to it that they leave a trail of corpses to mark their progress . " 1 " There are ...
... Mance Rayder himself , if we find him . If they break and return to their hovels , we've won . If not , we'll harry them all the way to the Wall , and see to it that they leave a trail of corpses to mark their progress . " 1 " There are ...
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