商品簡介
The young and powerful warrior Arthur stands on the brink of legend. He has united most of Britain's clans but does not yet hold supreme power. It appears to be in his grasp when Britain's leaders come together to elect a new Rigotamos. Then a young woman is brutally murdered, and the blame is placed at Merlin's feet. Arthur's reputation is at stake, and his enemies are poised to strike. And so Arthur turns to the one man he knows can help him, a man whose keen eye on the ways of battle and keener insight into how the human mind works have helped him come to the brink of kingship. Malgwyn. Who hates Arthur most in all the world.
As a young man, Malgwyn was a farmer who had an adoring wife and a treasured babe. Then the Saxons destroyed his family and drove Malgwyn into madness. Mad Malgwyn became a slayer of Saxons and right-hand lieutenant to the warrior chief Arthur - until a Saxon cut off his sword arm. Now a one-armed scribe, Malgwyn spends much time drinking, wenching, and trying to forget the man he once was. And nursing a hatred for the man who saved him from the battlefield because he valued him for his mind as much as his valor in battle.
But loyalty is sometimes stronger than hate ... and Malgwyn is pulled toward a puzzle from which he can't walk away.
作者簡介
Tony Hays is a journalist and novelist. He has covered topics as varied as narcotics trafficking (earning his newspaper the Tennessee Press Association award for Public Service in 2000), political corruption, Civil War history, and the war on terror. His short fiction has appeared both in the United States and Japan, and he is the author of three novels. He resides in Tennessee.
