''A fine example of the new anti-epic fiction at its best . . . This is one of the more brilliant pieces of writing that you''re liable to read for a long time.'' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

''One of the major-league fantasy releases of 2011, the highly awaited The White-Luck Warrior by Scott Bakker . . Nobody can deny the powerful nature of those books . . . Overall [Bakker''s books have] enriched the potential of the fantasy genre quite a lot.'' - Fantasy Book Critic

A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the three seas, the first true aspect-emperor in a thousand years.

As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as wellAchamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend.

Into this tumult walks the White Luck Warrior, assassin and messiah both, executing a mission as old as the World''s making . .

The second volume in the ambitious and compelling Aspect-Emperor fantasy series

Books by R Scott Baker:

Prince of Nothing Trilogy
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Warrior-Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought

Aspect-Emperor
The Judging Eye
The White Luck Warrior
The Great Ordeal
The Unholy Consult

Novels
Neuropath
Disciple of the Dog
Light, Time, and Gravity

Format Häftad Omfång 768 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2012-02-02 ISBN 9781841495408