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Published Aug 2009
512 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him—and everyone he loves—into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence . . . In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.
"Fantasy and thriller readers alike will find themselves swept along to the final confrontation and looking forward to the next installment." - Publishers Weekly
"Goodkind departs from his hot-selling Sword of Truth series (Confessor, 2007, etc.), but not entirely." - Kirkus Reviews
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Terry Goodkind was born in 1948 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. His
dyslexia caused him constant frustration in high school and he later dropped out
of college
His first novel, Wizard’s
First Rule (Tor Books, 1994) was sold at auction for six times more than
any other first fantasy novel. With a substantial first print run of
60,000 copies it went on to be a bestseller. Each subsequent book in the Sword of Truth
series has sold better than the one before and some twenty million copies of
books in the series have now been sold.
The saga of the Sword of Truth started growing in Goodkind’s mind during the
early 1990s while he was building his house in the forests of the
northeastern U.S. Before turning his hand to writing he was known for ...
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