The Lone Drow: Hunter's Blades #2 (Legend of Drizzt #18)

by R. A. Salvatore, Victor Bevine (Read by)

Overview

Alone on the battlefield. Surrounded by death. Cornered by enemies. And ready to die.

Drizzt Do’Urden has become the Hunter, the bane of the orc hordes still ravaging the North. Cut off, alone, convinced that everything he ever valued has been destroyed, all that’s left is to kill, and kill, and kill, until there are no enemies left. But there are a lot of enemies, and even the Hunter is just one lone drow.…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491549858
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Series:	Legend of Drizzt Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	15 - 17 Years

About the Author

R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. He promptly changed his major from computer science to journalism. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications in 1981, then returned for the degree he always cherished, the Bachelor of Arts in English. He began writing seriously in 1982, penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic.

His first published novel was The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988 and he is still best known as the creator of the dark elf Drizzt, one of fantasy’s most beloved characters.

His novel The Silent Blade won the Origins Award, and in the fall of 1997, his letters, manuscripts, and other professional papers were donated to the R.A. Salvatore Library at his alma mater, Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Hometown:

Leominster, MA

Date of Birth:

January 20, 1959

Place of Birth:

Leominster, MA

Website:

http://www.rasalvatore.com/

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Fantasy fans, rejoice! Drizzt Do'Urden, the legendary butt-kicking dark elf featured in dozens of R. A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realm's novels, is back and badder than ever in The Lone Drow, the second book in Salvatore's Hunter's Blades trilogy.

In A Thousand Orcs, the first book in the trilogy, an army of orcs and frost giants have joined forces and overrun an important dwarven stronghold. The monstrous fighting force is led by King Obould Many-Arrows, a hulking orc with something most orcs are lacking -- intelligence. During the terrible orc onslaught, one of Drizzt's close friends (and there aren't many of them!), the legendary dwarf King Breunor Battlehammer, is lost as a tower collapses. Drizzt can only watch as his friend falls to what must surely be his death…

In The Lone Drow, Obould Many-Arrows and his evil minions are systematically closing in on Mithral Hall. When the orc priests declare Obould to be the living personification of their god, religious fanaticism reaches a frenzy and the slaughter reaches new levels. With orcs and giants on all sides and trolls in the tunnels, the future looks bleak for Drizzt's companions and all the dwarves inside the great hall. But the dwarf king Breunor isn't quite dead, and Drizzt stalks the orcs in the wilderness like a black-skinned madman, wielding two razor-sharp scimitars. Will it be enough to stop the approaching army?

It doesn't matter if you're a teenager or an octogenarian; Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels are guaranteed to be addictively entertaining. Great characters, complex story lines, nonstop action, and breathtaking locations -- this is adventure fantasy at its very best. Paul Goat Allen

bn.com

At the start of bestseller Salvatore's second book in his Tolkienesque fantasy trilogy (after 2002's The Thousand Orcs), hordes of orcs, led by cruel King Obould Many-Arrows, sweep down mechanically and unexcitingly on beleaguered dwarves. When he isn't slaying orcs, the story's hero, the dark elf drow loner Drizzt Do'Urden, suffers guilt for allowing a friendly elf to die in his stead and is attracted to Catti-brie, a beautiful human woman who is the ward of the dying dwarf king, Bruenor Battlehammer. The usual fantasy suspects-gnomes, trolls, elves, flying horses, unicorns, giants-crowd the pages, but the author does at times rise above cliche, and a few characters do achieve some complexity. Obould actually speaks of economics, while an elf, Innovindel, having lost her mate in battle, talks pensively of the centuries of her life, in contrast to the paltry few years of human life. This difference is significant to Drizzt, because Catti-brie is only human. Fans will eagerly await further developments in volume three. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

> At the start of bestseller Salvatore's second book in his Tolkienesque > fantasy trilogy (after 2002's The Thousand Orcs), hordes of orcs, led by > cruel King Obould Many-Arrows, sweep down mechanically and unexcitingly on > beleaguered dwarves. When he isn't slaying orcs, the story's hero, the > dark elf drow loner Drizzt Do'Urden, suffers guilt for allowing a friendly > elf to die in his stead and is attracted to Catti-brie, a beautiful human > woman who is the ward of the dying dwarf king, Bruenor Battlehammer. The > usual fantasy suspects-gnomes, trolls, elves, flying horses, unicorns, > giants-crowd the pages, but the author does at times rise above cliche, > and a few characters do achieve some complexity. Obould actually speaks of > economics, while an elf, Innovindel, having lost her mate in battle, talks > pensively of the centuries of her life, in contrast to the paltry few > years of human life. This difference is significant to Drizzt, because > Catti-brie is only human. Fans will eagerly await further developments in > volume three. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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