By R. A. Salvatore
“The Companions is the easiest novel [R.A.] Salvatore has ever written. It’s insanely brave, profoundly robust, masterfully built, and simply Salvatore’s such a lot formidable paintings to date.”—Paul Goat Allen, BarnesandNoble.com
“After 1 / 4 of a century, R.A. Salvatore simply retains recuperating and higher, and The partners is one other masterful step forward for one of many maximum delusion epics of all time.”
—Philip Athans, best-selling writer of Annihilation and The Haunting of Dragon’s Cliff
This most up-to-date installment in New York Times best-selling writer R.A. Salvatore's liked delusion saga, The Companions strikes Salvatore's signature hero Drizzt right into a new period of the Forgotten nation-states. As Drizzt's destiny hangs within the stability, he displays at the lives of the depended on allies who stood by means of his part all through his early life--the acquaintances referred to now because the partners of the corridor. in the meantime, the 1st stirrings of the Sundering start.
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One always suspects that he must have knitted it himself. ' Vivien, smiling persistently despite the fact that neither man was now paying any attention to her, passed through the gallery towards her small office at the back. She always enjoyed this walk: the gallery was so cool, so pale, so translucent (the paintings seemed to glow on the light grey walls) that it was as if her own feelings were slowly being bleached out of her until she reached her desk as the efficient secretary of Mr Cumberland and Mr Maitland.
The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip. ' He took him over to the north porch, the light from the half-closed door illuminating the righthand side of his body, his creased neck, his old overcoat, and his trembling hand with the coin still in it. 'There,' he said, opening the door and pointing out into the street beyond, There's his house. ' Philip looked in the direction to which he was pointing, and could see what looked like a painted surface raised up beside the main road.
Slowly they approached the baptistery. 'He's all written down, he is. ' And in the gently moving light, stained with the colours of the high windows, the old man pored through some pamphlets which had been left for sale beside a 'World in Peril' poster and a scale model of the church itself. ' He held up a pamphlet with the title Thomas Chatterton: Son of Bristol. ' 'You give what you can. ' Philip searched frantically in the pockets of his jeans, and eventually came out with a pound coin. ' The old man quickly took the coin and held it aloft in his right hand as he gave the pamphlet to Philip.