Reap the East Wind

Dread Empire, Book 6

It has ended. It begins again. In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne - under their thumb. In Shinsan, a pig-farmer's son takes command of Eastern Army, while Lord Kuo faces plots in his council and a suicide attack of two million Matayangans on his border. But in the desert beyond the Dread Empire, a young victim of the Great War becomes the Deliverer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions of the dead. And the power of his vengeance will make a world's schemes as petty as dust, blown wild in the horror that rides the east wind.

This volume marks the beginning of the end. Reap the East Wind is the first step on the road to the long-delayed final chapter of Glen Cook's legendary Dread Empire series.

©1987 Glen Cook (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Perspectives

Cook has an impressive knack for taking you inside his characters' heads and making them sympathetic. You can find yourself so caught up in the antagonist's shoes that as the you see the onrush of the protaganist, you may be pardoned for feeling anxiety over the plight of this poor driven soul you've been following for a chapter
... and them be turned back around again by the end of the protaganist's chapter. There are purely unpleasant figures, to be sure, bu their perspectives are not generally those that are chosen for any length of time.

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felt like this book recycled a bunch of older dread empire story? word word word