A Storm of Swords Complete Edition

A Storm of Swords Complete Edition
George Raymond Richard Martin

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.

A STORM OF SWORDS

BOOK THREE OF

A Song of Ice and Fire

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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First published in Great Britain by Voyager in 2000

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Source ISBN: 9780002245869

Ebook Edition © April 2012 ISBN: 9780007426232

Version: 2017-08-15

Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire:

‘This is one of those rare and effortless reads.’

ROBIN HOBB

‘George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books.’

RAYMOND E. FEIST

‘Such a splendid tale. I read my eyes out – I couldn’t stop till I’d finished and it was dawn.’

ANNE MCCAFFREY

‘George R.R. Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy.’

KATHARINE KERR

‘Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse.’

JANNY WURTS

For Phyllis

who made me put the dragons in

Contents

Cover (#u5898a918-80c5-5772-b3a3-ecc81a8f3f9c)

Title Page (#udc1e2362-6ff3-5600-a108-1335608ff1f9)

Copyright (#u8c4a840c-1198-5970-874c-96a28ba31f2f)

Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire (#udc21b89c-c197-52a6-87da-b39fc1b98960)

Dedication (#u203276e5-cb59-56e5-bcc9-34bac733d07e)

A Note On Chronology (#ud9605478-32b0-5f2f-a461-ff7bcb6f6867)

Maps (#u5b6a74ed-8903-5fb4-bcae-c10a678f9f7c)

Prologue (#u8ee49b0c-3902-5d84-bd7a-3b64dfb83cd6)

Jaime (#ud8f4ae87-8c0e-5048-9363-6e7f03878699)

Catelyn (#u696d30bd-c71f-5fbb-83bd-46e4bccdb46e)

Arya (#u457342cd-71d2-5283-8653-e5363d4edd7b)

Tyrion (#u70e30f8b-a9eb-5640-8a10-16308fc7cefe)

Davos (#u5e4e7c5e-8953-5f4d-a709-61c5347f4e43)