Jardir, who seemed to mostly be a villain in the first book, is made more sympathetic through a flashback to his childhood warrior training and the machinations of his psychically gifted chief wife, Inevera, who seems part Bene Gesserit and part Lady Macbeth as she plots his rise to power. This choice may pull in new readers but risks alienating returning ones, since series hero Arlen Bales doesn’t even appear until midbook. Brett Publishers Weekly In keeping with the recent trend of starting in the thick of the action, this sequel to 2009’s The Warded Man picks up in the heat of Jardir’s conquest of the greenlands. Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligent-and deadly-than any that have come before.Now with twenty pages of bonus material, including an exclusive interview with Peter V. Once, the Shar’Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends. But the Northerners claim their own Deliverer: the Warded Man, a dark, forbidding figure. He has proclaimed himself Shar’Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weapons-a spear and a crown-that give credence to his claim. Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the desert tribes into a demon-killing army. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not.
Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power.
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