HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS is the third volume in the series. A beautifully presented slipcased edition of A STORM OF SWORDS. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt & blood feud & winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice & stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. The men of the Nights Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold & 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 Robbs defences are ranged against attack from the South the land of House Starks 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. Cerseis ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life a victim of treachery. & on the other side of the ocean the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husbands 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.