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A Game of Thrones US cover

A Game of Thrones
by
George R. R. Martin

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire

Del Rey paperback 807 pages
cover art by Stephen Youll (left)

Voyager UK paperback 807 pages
cover art by Jim Burns (right)

 A Game of Thrones UK cover
From inside cover of US hardback (not shown):
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance.  In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing.  The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing: his most trusted advisor dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne.  At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to.  Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.

From back cover of UK paperback:
In the game of thrones, you win or you die.
As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of Hand.  His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must. . . and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.  The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split, and there is treachery at court.  Worse, a vengeance mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea.  Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne.
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A Clash of Kings, book two
A Storm of Swords, book three
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Path of the Dragon
Aaron's book reviews on Fantastic Reviews
Aaron's book review of A Clash of Kings
Aaron's book review of A Storm of Swords
Aaron's book review of A Feast for Crows

A Game of Thrones book reviews on the Web:
dragonsworn Review: A Game of Thrones
Rambles Review: A Game of Thrones
infinity plus Review: A Game of Thrones

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