"A wonderful piece of storytelling...with plenty of hairpin twists, crammed with...juicy battles and racing towards a carefully set-up conclusion that is both exciting and genuinely moving."--"SFX." Nicholls's masterworks tell the story from the other side--from the perspective of the orcs, "Lord of the Rings"' villains. This third volume in his critically acclaimed fantasy finds Maras Dantia drowning in war... with time running out to save the world. "A...highly original saga."--"Lineone." "Wall to wall action, undercurrents of dark humor...gritty, fast-paced"--David Gemmell. "Fast-paced action...[a] nonstandard fantasy."--"Library Journal."
