His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. George Raymond Richard 'R.R.' Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Īudacious, inventive, brilliantly imagined, A Clash of Kings is a novel of dazzling beauty and boundless enchantment-a tale of pure excitement you will never forget. 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. 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.

It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk at night. 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. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced.Ī comet the colour of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Alternate cover editions can be found here, here and here.

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