Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b>THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.</b><br><br></b>In this eagerly awaited sequel to <i>A Game of Thrones</i> George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision power and imagination. <i>A Clash of Kings</i> transports us to a world of revelry and revenge wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced.<br><br><b>A CLASH OF KINGS</b><br><br>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.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>How does he do it? <I>George R.R. Martin</I>'s high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first book--<I>A Game of Thrones</I>--runs over 700 pages). <I>A Clash of Kings</I> is longer and even more grim?? but Martin continues to provide compelling characters in a vividly real world.<p> The Seven Kingdoms have come apart. Joffrey?? Queen Cersei's sadistic son??