The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades - Hardcover

Duncan, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060555114 ISBN 13: 9780060555115

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2004

Synopsis

Acclaimed fantasy author Dave Duncan returns to Chivial and the dashing King's Blades -- the greatest swordsmen in the world -- with a new epic adventure of sword fights, magic, romance, and a Blade unlike any other.

Sir Wolf is not your typical King's Blade. Sure, he's smart, athletic, a good dresser, and a phenomenal swordsman. But he hasn't been named the King's Killer for nothing, and after years of dark secrets and painful loyalties to a king he cannot respect, all he wants is to be left alone.

But when unknown assailants storm a royal fortress and carry off a former royal mistress, Wolf is dispatched posthaste to investigate. Who were these strangers, what were their motives, and who -- or what -- was their sinister cat-faced leader? Burdened by the need to comfort his impetuous younger brother, Sir Lynx -- the only Blade ever to lose his ward and live -- and shadowed by a secretive Inquisitor with her own agenda, Wolf struggles to solve a mystery that threatens the kingdom of Chivial itself. His quest will lead him into lands of danger and discovery unlike any the Blades have ever seen, and to an answer beyond his wildest nightmares.

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Duncan is an award-winning author whose fantasy trilogy, The Seventh Sword, is considered a sword-and-sorcery classic. His numerous novels include three Tales of the King's Blades -- The Gilded Chain, Lord of the Fire Lands, and Sky of Swords; Paragon Lost, a previous Chronicle of the King’s Blades; Strings, Hero; the popular tetralogies A Man of His Word and A Handful of Men; and the remarkable, critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy The Great Game.

From Booklist:

The latest of the justly popular King's Blades novels is a stand-alone--though readers already acquainted with Sir Wolf may appreciate it more. Sir Wolf has to track down his brother, Sir Lynx, who is turning into a jaguar after picking up a magical talisman left behind by the half-animal, half-human raiders who kidnapped the king's ex-mistress, Celeste. So Lynx searches for Celeste, and Wolf for Lynx. Wolf is accompanied by female mage Hogwood, who eventually becomes his wife and ever-present help in time of trouble, of which there is plenty. In the Hence Lands, Lynx's trail takes Wolf into furious confrontation with an Aztec-like civilization, whose magic enhances both its virtues and its vices. More furiously active than ever before, this volume boasts a body count not for the weak of stomach and shows Duncan as deft as ever with the Blades' small-group politics and the convolutions of the world in which they wield their weapons. Essential for King's Blades enthusiasts. Roland Green
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060555114
• ISBN 13: 9780060555115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400