Lessek's Key (Gollancz) - Softcover

Robert Scott; Jay Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575078103 ISBN 13: 9780575078109

Publisher: Gollancz, London, 2006

Synopsis

The Larion spell table has been dormant for nearly a thousand Twinmoons. It waits in a forgotten chamber in Sandcliff Palace, the abandoned Larion Senate stronghold on Eldarn's North Sea. The spell table holds the power to see the people of the five lands safely through the oppression and brutality that have haunted them for generations, but without Lessek's key it is a worthless slab of granite - and Lessek's key itself is just a nondescript stone Steven Taylor and Mark Jenkins overlooked on the night they fell through the far portal into Eldarn. Retrieving the key and freeing Eldarn's people rests with Steven Taylor, the would-be sorcerer from Colorado, who is racing across America with Nerak, the fallen Larion dictator, hot on his heels. Steven must reach Idaho Springs and find Lessek's key before it falls into Nerak's hands and is lost for ever - and with it, the lives of untold millions, in both of Steven's worlds. Return with Steven Taylor to Eldarn, where the magic of Lessek and the Larion Senators waits for the restoration of Lessek's key.

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About the Author

Robert Scott was born in New York. He studied classical guitar, then completed a Masters degree in education. Following a 1994 concert series in Brazil, he moved to Colorado to teach and to complete a doctorate in educational leadership and policy study. THE HICKORY STAFF is his first work of fiction. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children. Jay Gordon was born in New York. He worked as a business programmer before becoming a network management specialist. In New Jersey he founded an independent consulting firm building corporate network and technology systems. Jay died in 2005, after he and Robert completed the first draft of the final volume in the Eldarn sequence. Jay Gordon was born in New York. Before his death in 2005 Jay worked as a business programmer before becoming a network management specialist. In New Jersey he founded an independent consulting firm building corporate network and technology systems. The Hickory Staff was Jay's first work of fiction. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

From Publishers Weekly

Scott continues the fantasy trilogy, created from the notes he and his late father-in-law Gordon wrote when they plotted the series. In this grand-scale installment, bank manager Steven Taylor races across the United States to retrieve the magical Lessek's Key and help his friend Mark Jenkins, who is trapped in the fantasy world Eldarn. Nerak, demonic sorcerer-prince of Eldarn, leaves a trail of horror across modern-day Colorado as Mark and his companions travel to the home of the murdered Larion Senate and the magical table opened by the key, while Steven's girlfriend, Hannah Sorenson, struggles through a forest of ghosts and mysterious visions and attempts to infiltrate Nerak's palace. The story moves along briskly, though Mark's sudden racial sensitivity and expert archer Garec's crisis of conscience are jarring diversions. Much is left dangling to await the concluding volume, due out in March. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz, London
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0575078103
• ISBN 13: 9780575078109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528