{"product_id":"diablo-iii-the-order-9781416550785","title":"Diablo III: The Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn all-new novel in the groundbreaking video game series Diablothe Harry Potter of computer games (The New York Times).  Deckard Cain made his way across the floor  following the footprints to an alcove in the far wall. Rotted boards clung to supports  the last remains of an ancient library. This had been a ritual chamber  many centuries before  used to summon things from beyond the human world. A portal to the Burning Hells themselves  perhaps. The shelves were empty now. He saw a speck of yellow underneath a splinter of wood and bent to pick up a corner of parchment paper  curled and speckled with mildew.  Something moved in the shadows to his right.  He whirled  holding the light up. For a moment it appeared as if the shadows themselves were alive  bunching and swirling like ink in water. At the same time  a voice like the distant moan of wind drifted through the empty room and raised the hairs on the back of his neck.  Deckaaaaarrdddd Caiiinnnn . . .  Cain felt a strange doubling  a memory of a night many years before  when he was just a boy. A whispered voice calling to him  just like this. He backed away  fumbling in his rucksack with one hand  holding the lighted staff with the other against the darkness. Already he was doubting himself: had it just been the wind moving through the broken remains of the building above him  a trick his mind had played after so long in the sun?  The voice came again  a sound like bones scraping together in the grave.  Your ghosts are many  old man  and they are active.  A grating of metal over rock seemed to come from everywhere at once. Once again a pool of black smoke thickened and then dissipated  only to reassemble somewhere else: a shape carrying a sword  the form of a man  but with eyes that glowed red with the fires of hell.  Cain knew what this was  yanked from the depths of his own mind and used against him: the image of the Dark Wanderer himself  conjured up to weaken his resolve. The smoke-shape swirled and shifted  reforming into two indistinct human shapes  one taller and clearly female  one small and delicate. Shock raced through Cains limbs as an older  familiar memory fought to surface. He closed his eyes against the darkness as the yawning pit of despair opened within him  threatening to pull him in. You must not listen.    Deckard Cain is the last of the Horadrim  the sole surviving member of a mysterious and legendary order. Assembled by the archangel Tyrael  the Horadrim were charged with the sacred duty of seeking out and vanquishing the three Prime Evils: Diablo (the Lord of Terror)  Mephisto (the Lord of Hatred)  and Baal (the Lord of Destruction). But that was many years ago. As the decades passed  the Horadrims strength diminished  and they fell into obscurity. Now all of their collected history  tactics  and wisdom lie within the aged hands of one man. A man who is growing concerned.  Dark whisperings have begun to fill the air  tales of ancient evil stirring  rumblings of a demonic invasion set to tear the land apart.  Amid the mounting dread  Deckard Cain uncovers startling new information that could bring about the salvationor ruinof the mortal world: other remnants of the Horadrim still exist. He must unravel where they have been and why they are hiding from one of their own.  As Cain searches for the lost members of his order  he is thrust into an alliance with an unlikely ally: Leah  an eight-year-old girl feared by many to carry a diabolical curse. What is her secret? How is it tied to the prophesied End of Days? And if there are other living Horadrim  will they be able to stand against oblivion? These are the questions Deckard Cain must answer . . .  . . . before it is too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45277011836981,"sku":"ByrdShop_141655078X","price":100.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781416550785.jpg?v=1780569556","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/diablo-iii-the-order-9781416550785","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}