The Cutting Edge (A Handful of Men) - Softcover

Duncan, Dave

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9780759270503: The Cutting Edge (A Handful of Men)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759270503 ISBN 13: 9780759270503

Publisher: E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, 2008

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The hated sorcery was destroyed, Aunt Kade organized the wedding, former stableboy Rap married his beloved Queen Inos, and so Emperor and Clown brought a happy ending to the "Man of His Word" series... So I thought. The books were not even published when I saw where Rap had blundered. Neither he nor I had noticed it at the time, but he had done one act of kindness that must inevitably upset the elaborate system of magic and politics that governed the world of Pandemia. Rather reluctantly in my case, and very reluctantly in Rap's case, he would have to undertake another adventure. Of course the Evil found the loophole, but the Evil is patient. Fifteen years slid by. Rap and Inos lived happily in their remote little kingdom of Krasnegar, raising a family and paying little heed to the world outside. The old Imperor had become erratic and tyrannical. Little Shandie was a celebrated soldier, fighting ever-growing wars in the borderlands while he waited to inherit the throne. Strange prophec

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From the Publisher:

If you haven't read it, please see my comment on Duncan's MAN OF HIS WORD series, to which this series is a sequel. If you enjoyed that series and, like me, hoped it would never end, well, it didn't, but continues here! Duncan's Pandemia world is too rich for one series to contain. I loved both. Once again, I couldn't wait for the books to be typeset--I read extra copies of the manuscripts.

--Steve Palmer, Director of Production Mass Market

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een Inos married the loyal stableboy Rap and made him her king. They were very much in love, and they lived happily ever after.

Fifteen years went by Rap and Inos were comfortable, secure, and truly happy, raising their family in the little backwater kingdom of Krasnegar, well removed from the hurly-burly of great affairs...

But in far-off Hub, the old Imperor's health -- and, some said, his sanity -- deteriorated inexorably. The borderlands were seething, Prince Emshandar -- or Shandie, as Rap knew him -- found himself leading his grandfather's armies into terrible battles where victory and justice hung in gravest doubt.

And now the end of the millennium was at hand, ushered in by prophecies of cataclysmic upheaval on a scale never before imagined. All across Pandemia, sensible people tried to dismiss a growing sense of unease as superstitious nonsense.

Then a God appeared to Rap and warned him that the prophecies spoke the least of the truth. Devas

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