The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Book 2)

The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Book 2) by Brust, Steven. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780812534191.

With his bestselling novel The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels. Its sequel, Five Hundred Years After, was hailed by Science Fiction Chronicle as the best fantasy novel of the year. Now, in the Viscount of Adrilankha series, Brust has returned to the Khaavren epic, first with The Paths of the Dead, and now with its direct continuation, The Lord of Castle Black...a novel that gives Vlad Taltos and Khaavren fans alike a new look at one of Brusts most popular characters, the Dragonlord Morrolan. Along the way, well also encounter swordplay, intrigues, quests, battles, romance, snappy dialogue, and the missing heir to the Imperial Throne. Its an old-fashioned adventure, moving at a twenty-first-century pace.