Druid's Sword: Book Four of The Troy Game

ISBN: 0765305437

Author: Douglass, Sara

Condition: New

From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The meaty, suspenseful final book of Douglass' Troy Game series (after 2005's Darkwitch Rising) will both horrify and delight readers enthralled by his combative, perpetually reincarnated characters. Four centuries after his plans to complete the Troy Game collapsed when he was betrayed (again) by his ex-wife, Brutus, a supernaturally powerful Kingman who was once an exiled Trojan prince, returns to WWII-era London, reincarnated as the American Maj. Jack Skelton, summoned by the Lord of the Faerie and the need of the land. With the Nazis spreading across Europe, Britain on the brink war and London wracked by a string of brutal murders, Jack joins the rest of the immortals tied to the Troy Game in their last, desperate attempt to eradicate the Game without destroying themselves. Douglass wraps her millennia-spanning epic with a dark, pitch-perfect finale.Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Product Description1940. The skies above London are filled with German planes on nightly raids, a Blitz that brings a barrage of bombs that pound the city into rubble. Each morning Londoners face the night's handiwork and though they are presented with the possibility of sudden death, they are determined to fight the evil that threatens to destroy their nation. They struggle to live normal lives amid the terror and chaos.But is it only Hitler's Luftwaffe and the Blitz that is responsible for all the death and destruction that the city is facing?Brutus, the Greek Kingman who brought the bands of power to the isle of Alba millennia ago once again walks the streets of London, this time as an American major. The men and women who are his eternal companions (and sometimes lovers and enemies) have all been reborn in this time and place. They have come together for one last battle to finally complete the magical Labyrinth buried at the heart of the city. Half completed and resonating with an evil power, the Maze calls to them to complete the Game and possibly set all the players free. As Brutus works to find a solution that will end his age-old pain he comes to realize that there is a new power that walks the land. It is strong, hungry, and it has its own agenda.And by its actions could change the world forever.From BooklistThe conclusion of The Troy Game (Hades' Daughter, 2003; Gods' Concubine, 2004; and Darkwitch Rising, 2005, precede it) reunites all the players in London as World War II breaks out. Most are content to live as faerie folk among humans. They no longer hate one another--quite so passionately, anyway--and would like to end the game. But the game came to life with Catling, who, possessed of considerable powers, has a vicious hold on all players. She cursed Grace, daughter of Noah (whose original incarnation was Cornelia, British wife of Brutus) and Weyland Orr (whose original incarnation was Asterion) so that whatever is done to the game is done to Grace. It can't be destroyed without destroying her. Moreover, an indigenous force that only Jack Skelton (original incarnation, Brutus) can sense also opposes the game. The struggles of characters and game are well woven into events in London from September 1939 through May 1941. Moderating the sex that marred its predecessors, Douglass brings the saga to a smashing finish. Frieda MurrayCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedReview"Douglass recreates the Aegean world and a Pre-Celtic England in a sweeping epic that grabs your attention at the first page."--Romantic Times BookClub Magazine (4 1/2 stars) on Hades' Daughter"A rich and complex novel full of rich and complex characters."--SF Chronicle on God's Concubine"...enriched by the author's historical and folkloric expertise."--Publishers Weekly on Darkwitch RisingAbout the AuthorSara Douglass was born in South Australia and spent her early working life as a nurse. When she grew tired of