A Feast for Crows: Book 4 (A Song of Ice and Fire Series)

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martins monumental epic cycle of high fantasy that began with A Game of Thrones. Now in A Feast for Crows Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.A Feast for CrowsIt seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey Cersei is ruling as regent in Kings Landing. Robb Starks demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existor they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war which raged out of control for so long has burned itself out.But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle it is not long before the survivors outlaws renegades and carrion eaters start to gather picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed while surprising facessome familiar others only just appearingare seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.