num_pages: 544
description: Walter Jon Williams is always fun but this may be his best yet a delight from start to finish witty colorful exciting and amusing by turns exquisitely written. George R. R. MartinFrom New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses pirates war and dragons.Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant soldier.Quillifer is a young man serially in love and studying law when a family tragedy throws him into the world to seek his fortune. A charmer rather than a fighter he soon finds himself embroiled with a bandit gang caught up in vicious court intrigues and the plaything of an angry beautiful and very jealous goddess. While he struggles to establish himself in the capital the country finds itself pitched into a civil war and Quillifer a unwilling soldier at best finds himself caught up in the action and able to tip the scales of fortune.Quillifer  with its engaging hero and his exploits with lovers brawlers warriors and privateers is a book that bursts with life. Its the first volume in a new epic fantasy by bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams.
language: English
title: Quillifer
publisher: Gallery / Saga Press