A Knight of the Word

terry brooks

John Ross, the tortured, conflicted Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon, finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel. He buys this moment's peace at the cost of his sacred oath to be a champion of the Word, renouncing that pledge after failing to prevent the slaughter of a group of schoolchildren. Duty and destiny are difficult to elude, though, and soon his former charge Nest Freemark, now a college student and Olympic hopeful, arrives to warn him of his imminent destruction, or, worse, his unwitting fall into the service of the Void.

Genres fantasyurban fantasyfictionscience fiction fantasymagicepic fantasyscience fictiondemonshorroraudiobook

421 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1998

Series

The Word / The Void

This edition

Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1999 by Orbit
ISBN: 9781857237382
ASIN: 1857237382
Language: English

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Nest Freemark

Nest Freemark is the main character in Terry Brookss Word and Void trilogy. She has the ability to see feeders and helps John Ross fight the demon that tries to release the Maentwrong trapped in Sinissippi National Forest.In A Knight of the Word, Ne...
John Ross

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About the author

terry brooks

Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.
A writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre.
He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months.