A Game of Thrones

In the game of thrones, you win or you die.

As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand.

His honour weighs him down at court where a true man. does what he will, not what he must … and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.

The old gods have no power in the south, Stark’s family is split and there is treachery at court.

Worse, a vengeance-mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea.

Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne.