The Darkness that Comes Before

About this book

Strikingly original in its conception ambitious in scope with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn the first book in R. Scott Bakkers Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people its cities religions mysteries taboos and rituals-the kind of all-embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune. Its a world scarred by an apocalyptic past evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler Anasrimbor Kellhus-part warrior part philosopher part sorcerous charismatic presence-from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war and like all histories the survivors write its conclusion.