Knife of Dreams

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The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy.The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One's prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers. There are those among the Forsaken who will go to any length to see him dead--and the Black Ajah is at his side.... Unbeknownst to Rand, Perrin has made his own truce with the Seanchan. It is a deal made with the Dark One, in his eyes, but he will do whatever is needed to rescue his wife, Faile, and destroy the Shaido who captured her. Among the Shaido, Faile works to free herself while hiding a secret that might give her her freedom or cause her destruction. And at a town called Malden, the Two Rivers longbow will be matched against Shaido spears. Fleeing Ebou Dar through Seanchan-controlled Altara with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, Mat attempts to court the woman to whom he is half-married, knowing that she will complete that ceremony eventually. But Tuon coolly leads him on a merry chase as he learns that even a gift can have deep significance among the Seanchan Blood and what he thinks he knows of women is not enough to save him. For reasons of her own, which she will not reveal until a time of her choosing, she has pledged not to escape, but Mat still sweats whenever there are Seanchan soldiers near. Then he learns that Tuon herself is in deadly danger from those very soldiers. To get her to safety, he must do what he hates worse than work.... In Caemlyn, Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne while trying to avert what seems a certain civil war should she win the crown.... In the White Tower, Egwene struggles to undermine the sisters loyal to Elaida from within.... The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph. Knife of Dreams Cover......Page 1 Prologue......Page 2 CHAPTER 1......Page 39 CHAPTER 2......Page 46 CHAPTER 3......Page 54 CHAPTER 4......Page 57 CHAPTER 5......Page 62 CHAPTER 6......Page 68 CHAPTER 7......Page 74 CHAPTER 8......Page 78 CHAPTER 9......Page 87 CHAPTER 10......Page 92 CHAPTER 11......Page 99 CHAPTER 12......Page 108 CHAPTER 13......Page 115 CHAPTER 14......Page 120 CHAPTER 15......Page 125 CHAPTER 16......Page 131 CHAPTER 17......Page 136 CHAPTER 18......Page 143 CHAPTER 19......Page 148 CHAPTER 20......Page 154 CHAPTER 21......Page 162 CHAPTER 22......Page 171 CHAPTER 23......Page 176 CHAPTER 24......Page 184 CHAPTER 25......Page 197 CHAPTER 26......Page 203 CHAPTER 27......Page 213 CHAPTER 28......Page 222 CHAPTER 29......Page 228 CHAPTER 30......Page 236 CHAPTER 31......Page 242 CHAPTER 32......Page 248 CHAPTER 33......Page 254 CHAPTER 34......Page 259 CHAPTER 35......Page 262 CHAPTER 36......Page 268 CHAPTER 37......Page 273 CHAPTER 38......Page 278 Glossary......Page 282