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A Man Betrayed (The Book of Words) - J.V. Jones

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Manufacturer : Orbit
Release date : 7 November 1996
ISBN-10 : 1857234022 | ISBN-13 : 9781857234022

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Book DescriptionThe electrifying sequel to the bestselling The Baker's Boy. Demented Prince Kylock murders his father, gaining the vast empire of the Four Kingdoms. Meanwhile, Jack, and Melli, who have escaped from the Four Kingdoms, as separted--Jack is under the spell of a woman's seductive shemes, and Melli is captured by brutal slave ... (more)


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Unravelling yet unrevealed.

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago at May 21 9:50
This is the second volume in the Book of Words trilogy (following The Baker's Boy and followed by Master and Fool). Melli and Jack, fleeing for the second time from Castle Harvell, take refuge in a chicken coop. While Jack is taking a morning stroll in the snow to stretch his legs and bury the corpse of the Halcus man he's just killed to defend Melli, a group of soldiers kidnap the girl to sell her to a flesh-trader. On his way back to the coop, Jack is captured by Rovas and taken to his house. There he meets the smuggler's makeshift family: Magra and her mysterious daughter Tarissa, two noblewomen, exiles like him from the Four Kingdoms. They'll make him believe that Melli has been raped and slaughtered and enroll him to kill the Halcus captain responsible for her death. In the Nort...Read more