THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.

Here is the second book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.

A CLASH OF KINGS

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which 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, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

A GAME OF THRONES - A CLASH OF KINGS - A STORM OF SWORDS - A FEAST FOR CROWS - A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

Review Citations:

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/1998 pg. 58 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1998 pg. 1701 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Publishers Weekly 12/21/1998 pg. 59 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
• Booklist 01/01/1999 pg. 842 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 01/01/1999 pg. 165 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 11/01/1998 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 01/01/1999 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Entertainment Weekly 07/29/2011 pg. 46 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780553108033, Hardcover)
• Beyond the Cover Author Interv 10/01/2000 pg. 8 (EAN 9780553579901, Mass Market Paperbound)
• New York Review of Books 11/07/2013 pg. 40 (EAN 9780553579901, Mass Market Paperbound)

About the Author

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire-- A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons--as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). As a writer-producer, Martin has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.