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The Broken Empire [02] - King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Book One of the Broken Empire, Mark Lawrence brought to life the “morbidly gripping”* (Publishers Weekly) story of a boy in search of power and vengeance. Now, in King of Thorns, that boy’s journey into manhood takes him to the dark depths waiting within his soul... The boy who would be King has gained the throne... Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now he is eighteen—and he must hold on by strength of arms to what he took by torture and treachery. King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young boy, by a mysterious copper box, by his desire for the woman who rides with his enemy. Plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he committed, and of the atrocities committed against him when he was a child, he is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge continues to consume him, twenty thousand men march toward the gates of his castle. His enemy is far stronger than him. Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But he has found, in a chamber hidden beneath the castle, ancient and long-lost artifacts. Some might call the

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Mark Lawrence
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101581261
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating
4.5 / 5 (8,539 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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