- Good and evil, Fiction, Fantasy, Ross, john (fictitious character), fiction
Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross--along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future.Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Terry Brooks
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Orbit, BCA, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345432766
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“It was dawn when she woke, the sky just beginning to brighten in the east, night's shadows still draping the trunks and limbs of the big shade trees in inky layers.”
Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.
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