In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has
created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings
transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike
any you have ever experienced.A comet the color of blood and flame cuts
across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding
shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a
divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake
their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother
plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess
masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a
treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to
ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy
and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest
steel…and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.
