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Nish, his battered little troop and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's mighty army. Nish's only choices are a humiliating surrender to his father or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish has to fight, and somehow he has to win, for the beautiful world of Santhenar is in peril and no-one else can save it. Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shifting being from the void, has come to recover the stolen chthonic fire which once bound its physical and spirit aspects together, and it wants revenge for the mortal insult that was done to it. But it may be too late for Santhenar; chthonic fire has been released from its casket and is now eating away the Antarctic lands as it once devoured the planet of Aachan. Even if, by some miracle, Nish can win the battle with his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before the whole world is consumed.

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'Makes what's currently available on fantasy shelves seem hackneyed and formulaic. Utterly absorbing.' -- The Independent Weekly 'Unbelievably, Irvine has managed to increase the pace of his story in this third and final volume - for sheer excitement, there's just no one like Irvine around at the moment.' -- SFX 'The final payoff is fantastic. The most unflaggingly inventive storyteller we've seen in years.' -- Sydney Morning Herald

'Makes what's currently available on fantasy shelves seem hackneyed and formulaic. Utterly absorbing.' -- The Independent Weekly 'Unbelievably, Irvine has managed to increase the pace of his story in this third and final volume – for sheer excitement, there's just no one like Irvine around at the moment.' -- SFX 'The final payoff is fantastic. The most unflaggingly inventive storyteller we’ve seen in years.' -- Sydney Morning Herald

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Ian Irvine is an Australian novelist, the author of 34 novels for adults and for children, plus an anthology of shorter Three Worlds stories. He is also a marine scientist who has been working on pollution problems throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region since the late 1970s. Jack Hawkins is a British stage, film and television actor who attended Oxford University and graduated from LAMDA. He has appeared on the West End in Birdsong, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Harvey, and toured internationally with Cheek by Jowl to perform at the Sydney Theatre and BAM in New York. Jack has also appeared on television in Call the Midwife, New Tricks, Casualty and Holby City, and in the feature films Writers Retreat and The Head Hunter. He is also a narrator, lending his voice to audiobooks by bestselling authors Bernard Cornwell, Toby Clements and Andy McNab.

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