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  • By: John M. Ford
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  • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary

From a snowbound inn, high in the Alps, four unlikely allies will turn against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, duke of Gloucester, and make him Richard III.

A noble Byzantine mercenary. A female Florentine physician. An ageless Welsh wizard. And Sforza, an uncanny duke. Together, they will alter the fate of millions....

Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times best-selling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of blood and magic.
©1983 John M. Ford (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group
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"Had [John M. Ford] taken The Dragon Waiting and written a sequence of five books based in that world, with that power, he would've been George R.R. Martin." (Neil Gaiman)

"The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen." (Gene Wolfe)

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Well worth (re)discovering

This is a great book if you like "Alternative" history. It pulls you along and you get quite invested in the characters . I loved the employment of language and the steady pace of the tale. It ends at a momentous point in English and Welsh history which resurfaces in real life in a car park in the modern era, some years after the author died. Somehow that feelslike the opening to the next chapter in this story. Well worth a listen or a read.

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A favourite of mine, an an alternative historical fantasy about four damaged people, a one eyed Welsh wizard, an exiled heir to the Byzantine throne, a female physician to Lorenzo de Medici and a German vampire engineer, working against the Byzantine Empire. The struggle takes them to England after the War Of The Roses, where deadly dynastic squabbles threaten to turn the kingdom on its head. Clever, elliptical, occasionally horrific, full of magic and intrigue and mystery and betrayal.

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