The King Beyond the Gate - Paperback

by David Gemmell (Author)

It is a hundred years after the epic battle of Dros Delnoch. Now the fate of the Drenai people lies in the hands of a new ruler--someone hated by both the Drenai and the Nadir, their eternal enemies. Someone with the blood of both races in his veins.

Front Jacket

Once the mighty fortress had stood strong, defended by the mightiest of all Drenai heroes, Druss, the Legend. But now a tyrannical, mad emperor had seized control of the fortress, and his twisted will was carried throughout the land by the Joinings --- abominations that were half-man, half-beast. Tenaka Khan was a half-breed himself, hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry. But he alone had a plan to destroy the emperor. The last heroes of the Drenai joined with him in a desperate gamble to bring down the emperor -- even at the cost of their own destruction.