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|title=A Sword from Red Ice (Sword of Shadows)
|sort=Sword from Red Ice (Sword of Shadows)
|date=October 2007
|isbn=978-1841491172
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>1841491845</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=1841491845|aznus=<amazonus>0765306344</amazonus>
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Raif awakes, screaming Ash's name. Bear, his pony is frightened. But worse is to come... for Raif (Mor Drakka, Watcher of the Dead, Oathbreaker, Twelvekill) whatever his myriad names, they will aid him little now, for Raif is lost in the Want. The Want is that unmapped place north of the Badlands, South of the Crown of Ghosts. A place where not only the landscape cannot be relied upon to stay still - the dunes will shift and change everything - but also the skies above are just as untrustworthy. What the stars will tell you is North one night, may have shifted, like the dunes, the next. Sorcery is at work here. Unknown powers. No wonder most who enter the Want do not return.
Hence the long haul. If you are looking for a book to read. My only advice is: do not pick this one. For all its length, this is not a novel. It is an instalment.
If you come to it cold, you are gifted a 'story so far' synopsis which in half a dozen pages tries to bring you up to speed, with such a detailed account of what has happened to everyone involved that you haven't a hope of holding in your head as you dive into 'what happened next'. I suspect the only real answer is to start at the beginning with [[''A Cavern of Black Ice]]''... and read on.
I haven't done that. What I can tell you rests on this volume alone.

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