A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) by George R.R. Martin Book II [mobi] kindle 2002 text only {SPirate}

Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead...victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.

As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky—a comet the color of blood and flame—six factions struggle for control of a divided land. Eddard's son Robb has declared himself King in the North. In the south, Joffrey, the heir apparent, rules in name only, victim of the scheming courtiers who teem over King's Landing. Robert's two brothers each seek their own dominion, while a disfavored house turns once more to conquest. And a continent away, an exiled queen, the Mother of Dragons, risks everything to lead her precious brood across a hard hot desert to win back the crown that is rightfully hers.

A Clash of Kings transports us into a magnificent, forgotten land of revelry and revenge, wizardry and wartime. It is a tale in which maidens cavort with madmen, 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, the price of glory may be measured in blood. And the spoils of victory may just go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when rulers clash, all of the land feels the tremors.

Audacious, inventive, brilliantly imagined, A Clash of Kings is a novel of dazzling beauty and boundless enchantment;a tale of pure excitement you will never forget.


Paperback, 761 pages
Published May 28th 2002 by Bantam (first published November 16th 1998)
Original Title
A Clash of Kings
ISBN
0553381695 (ISBN13: 9780553381696)
Edition Language
English
Series
A Song of Ice and Fire #2
Characters
Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark...more
setting
The Lands of Ice and Fire
King's Landing
Maegor's Holdfast
Winterfell
Riverrun
Dragonstone
Citadel of Oldtown
Shipbreaker Bay
Storm's End
The Whispering Wood
White Harbor
Seagard
Iron Islands
Pyke
Moat Cailin
Qohor
Gulltown
Isle of Skagos
Pentos
Dorne
Oldtown
Harlaw
Great Wyk
Deepwood Motte
Vaes Tolorro
Castle Stokeworth
The Dreadfort
Torrhen's Square
Guildhall of the Alchemists
Sunspear
Greywater Watch
Craster's Keep
Ibben
House of the Undying
Fist of the First Men
Frostfangs
Milkwater
The Giant's Stair
Skirling Pass
Ashemark
Oxcross
Bitterbridge
Asshai
Summer Isles
Braavos
The Red Keep
Harrenhal
The Vale of Arryn
Mountains of the Moon
Casterly Rock
The Twins
Lorath
Castle Black
Shadow Tower
Eastwatch
Old Valyria
Horn Hill
Mole's Town
Volantis
Cape Wrath
The Eyrie
Highgarden
Blackwater Rush
Old Wyk
Castamere
Nunn's Deep
Pendric Hills
Temple of Memory
Hall of a Thousand Thrones
The Arbor
Crackclaw Point
Great Sept of Baelor
Greyguard
Long Barrow
Stonedoor
Icemark
Rosby
Castle Cerwyn
Acorn Water
Meereen
Duskendale
Vaes Dothrak
Lordsport


Literary Awards
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1999), Ignotus for Novela extranjera (2004)