Raymond E. Feist

At the Gates of Darkness


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       At the Gates of Darkness

       The Demonwar Saga Book Two

      Raymond E. Feist

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       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Published by HarperVoyager 2010

      Copyright © Raymond E. Feist 2010

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      Source ISBN: 9780007264711

      Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007290215

      Version: 2018-10-08

       Dedication

      For the ladies who make me look so good: (in alphabetical order) Jennifer Brehl, Emma Coode, Jane Johnson, and Katherine Nitzel; rarely does an author get one good editor, let alone four.

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Chapter Seven: Queg

       Chapter Eight: Fortress

       Chapter Nine: War

       Chapter Ten: Demon Lore

       Chapter Eleven: Escape

       Chapter Twelve: Allies

       Chapter Thirteen: Ancient Histories

       Chapter Fourteen: Slaughter

       Chapter Fifteen: Strategy

       Chapter Sixteen: Reconnaissance

       Chapter Seventeen: Summoning

       Chapter Eighteen: Attack

       Chapter Nineteen: Demon Unleashed

       Epilogue

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       • CHAPTER ONE • Sacrifice

      HOWLS FILLED THE NIGHT.

      The blasted hills smoked and the stench of char filled the air. Hundreds of robed figures slowly wended their way between rocky debris to reach the huge clearing below the remains of a fortress gate tower. A powerful man stood silently on top of the pile of stones, looking down upon his followers.

      Another figure waited in the shadows, using his considerable skill to remain unseen, and wishing fervently that he was anywhere else in the world but here. James Dasher Jamison took a slow, even breath, as much to calm himself as to catch his breath, and struggled to keep his wits about him. Within the courts of the three largest nations of the region, he was known as a minor noble of the Kingdom of the Isles; a man who had inherited, not earned, his rank, being the grandson of the Duke of Rillanon. To others he was Jim Dasher, a businessman involved in some petty criminal dealings in the city of Krondor; and to a few, he was known as the Upright Man, leader of the Thieves Guild: the Mockers. But even fewer knew James Dasher Jamison as the head of the Kingdom of the Isles intelligent apparatus, reporting directly to his grandfather.

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