A Storm Of Swords 1 by George R. R. Martin

Warring houses clash across a fractured realm as shocking betrayals, brutal politics and sudden reversals of fortune redraw the map of power: a northern king suffers treachery at a wedding, a monarch is poisoned amidst court intrigues, and a scapegoated nobleman is thrust into a desperate escape that ends in a violent reckoning. Beyond the capital, a young man undercover among the wildlings faces divided loyalties at the Wall while a displaced queen builds an unlikely army to free cities of slavery, and a crippled boy journeys northward in search of strange, ancient powers that may change everything.

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