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"Enthralling...gritty, down-to-earth. The best new fantasy I've read in years."-Maggie Furey
"Action fantasy at its best"-SFX
"Barclay...has a great eye for action....A scorching debut."-Time Out
"Full of magic and adventure and immensely enjoyable from start to finish."-John Marco
Six men and an elf make up The Raven, swords for hire in the wars that have torn apart the land of Balaia. For years, they have remained loyal only to themselves and their code. But a secret mission has changed that, and drawn them into a new world of politics and ancient mysteries. Now the band has chosen to fight for the Dark College of Magic. They want the location of Dawnthief, a spell to end the world-a spell The Raven intends to cast...
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About the Author
James Barclay is 36. He works in marketing as a copywriter. He also holds an equity card. This is his first novel.
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Barclay's hefty novel launches the Chronicles of the Raven, but be of good cheer, for it injects some originality into the traditional fantasy saga recipe. The Raven is a band of six humans and one elf in the war-torn kingdom of Balaia, which Barclay fills with the fruits of his considerable knowledge of military history and folklore. The comrades are no nicer than fellows loyal to one another and no one else need be, and their latest commission is a poser for them. They are to escort a Xeteskian mage, who is working for only the gods know whom, on a mission to find Dawnthief, a ring, or more precisely, a spell connected to a ring, that in the wrong hands could end the world. The mission is backed and supervised by the Dark College, which is even more untrustworthy than the mage. So matters rapidly deteriorate, to a cliffhanger ending. The narrative may be jumbled, but Barclay builds a world and peoples it intelligently. Roland Green
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- PublisherVictor Gollancz
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 185798594X
- ISBN 13 9781857985948
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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