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After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki's Key, an artefact capable of opening any door, and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire including The Dead King.
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Classical in form, epic, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Mark Lawrence
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 575
- Publisher
- Ace, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007531585
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Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was still young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom. Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. Since 2015, Lawrence operates the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, a literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy a
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