A Storm of Swords Complete Edition
HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS is the third volume in the series.The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.The men of the Night’s Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong – hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness – poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown.But Robb’s defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark’s enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei’s ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery.And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband’s funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.
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A STORM OF SWORDS
BOOK THREE OF
A Song of Ice and Fire
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Copyright
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First published in Great Britain by Voyager in 2000
Copyright © George R.R. Martin 2000
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Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire:
âThis is one of those rare and effortless reads.â
ROBIN HOBB
âGeorge R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books.â
RAYMOND E. FEIST
âSuch a splendid tale. I read my eyes out â I couldnât stop till Iâd finished and it was dawn.â
ANNE MCCAFFREY
âGeorge R.R. Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy.â
KATHARINE KERR
âFew created worlds are as imaginative and diverse.â
JANNY WURTS
For Phyllis
who made me put the dragons in
Contents
Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire
Appendix: The Kings and their Courts
The King in the North the King of the Trident
King of the Isles and the North
Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Brothers
The Sworn Brothers of the Nightâs Watch
The Brotherhood Without Banners an Outlaw Fellowship
A NOTE ON CHRONOLOGY
A Song of Ice and Fire is told through the eyes of characters who are sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles apart from one another. Some chapters cover a day, some only an hour; others might span a fortnight, a month, half a year. With such a structure, the narrative cannot be strictly sequential; sometimes important things are happening simultaneously, a thousand leagues apart.
In the case of the volume now in hand, the reader should realize that the opening chapters of A Storm of Swords do not follow the closing chapters of A Clash of Kings so much as overlap them. I open with a look at some of the things that were happening on the Fist of the First Men, at Riverrun, Harrenhal, and on the Trident while the Battle of the Blackwater was being fought at Kingâs Landing, and during its aftermath â¦
George R.R. Martin
PROLOGUE
The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent. The big black bitch had taken one sniff at the bear tracks, backed off, and skulked back to the pack with her tail between her legs. The dogs huddled together miserably on the riverbank as the wind snapped at them. Chett felt it too, biting through his layers of black wool and boiled leather. It was too bloody cold for man or beast, but here they were. His mouth twisted, and he could almost feel the boils that covered his cheeks and neck growing red and angry. I should be safe back at the Wall, tending the bloody ravens and making fires for old Maester Aemon. It was the bastard Jon Snow who had taken that from him, him and his fat friend Sam Tarly. It was their fault he was here, freezing his bloody balls off with a pack of hounds deep in the haunted forest.
âSeven hells.â He gave the leashes a hard yank to get the dogsâ attention. âTrack, you bastards. Thatâs a bear print. You want some meat or no?
