"Greg Keyes - Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone 3 - The Blood Knight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Keyes J Gregory)

 Brimming with passion and adventure, Greg Keyes's epic saga of a royal family's
fall from power through treachery and dark magic, set amid the return of ancient
evils, whose malevolence threatens to annihilate humanity, bids fair to become a
classic of its kind. Now, in the eagerly awaited third installment, Keyes draws the
threads of his tapestry ever tighter, illuminating old mysteries and introducing new
ones as events build toward a shattering climax.
The legendary Briar King has awakened, spreading madness and destruction.
Half-remembered, poorly understood prophecies seem to point to the young
princess Anne Dare, rightful heir to the throne of Crotheny, as the world's only hope.
Yet Anne is hunted by the minions of the usurper Robert, whose return from the
grave has opened a doorway through which sinister sorceries have poured into the
world. Though Anne herself is the conduit of fearsome powers beyond her
understanding and control, it is time for girl to become woman, princess to become
queen. Anne must stop running and instead march at the head of an army to take
back her kingdomтАж or die trying.
But a mysterious assassin stalks her, so skilled in the deadly fencing style of
dessrata that even Anne's friend and protector Cazio, a master of the form, cannot
stand against him, nor can her sworn defender, the young knight Neil MeqVren.
As for Anne's other companionsтАФAspar White, the royal holter who bears an
enchanted arrow capable of felling the Briar King; and Stephen Darige, the monk
who blew the horn that woke the Briar King from his slumberтАФthey cannot help her,
as their separate paths carry them ever deeper into a deadly maze of myth and magic
from which return may be impossible.
Meanwhile, Queen Muriele is a prisoner of the false king. With no allies but a
crippled musician who is himself a prisoner, and a servingwoman who is both more
and less than she seems, Muriele will find herself a pawn in Robert's schemes for
conquestтАФand a weapon to be used against her own daughter.
 GREG KEYES

THE

BLOOD

KNIGHT
The Kingdoms
of Thorn and Bone

DEL
REY
BALLANTINE BOOKS тАв NEW YORK
 CONTENTS
PROLOGUE

PART I

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

PART II

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15