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THE GILDED CHAIN
A Tale of the King's Blades

by
DAVE DUNCAN


BOOK JACKET INFORMATION

FANTASY

"Just the sort of marvelous yarn that lured me
into reading fantasy and sf."
ANNE McCAFFREY

DAVE DUNCAN is an award-winning
author whose fantasy trilogy, The Seventh
Sword, is considered a sword-and-sorcery
classic. A former geologist, his numerous
novels include Strings, Hero, the popular
tetrologies A Man of his Word and A
Handful of Men, and the remarkable, critically
acclaimed fantasy trilogy The Great
Game.

As unwanted, rebellious boys, they find
refuge in Ironhall ... Years later they
emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realm--

THE KING'S BLADES

A magical ritual of a sword through the heart
binds each to his ward--if not the king himself,
then to whomever else the monarch designates--with
absolute loyalty. And the greatest Blade of
them all was--and is--Sir Durendal.
But a lifelong dream of protecting his beloved
liege from enemies, traitors, and monsters is
dashed to bits when Durendal is bonded till
death to an effete noble fop at his king's orders.
Yet Destiny has many strange and inscrutable
plans for the young knight--for a mission, a contest,
and, perhaps, a treasure await him in a faraway
land. But he soon finds himself enmeshed in treason
and foul intrigues, compelled to betray the king he
had hoped to serve. The Blades have ways
to protect their own, but death and madness haunt the
path to salvation--and few ever return unscathed.

"Classy ... irresistible ... a handsomely