num_pages: 541
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. Martin Chock full of derring-do blood and thunder swashbuckling and other good stuff evocative of Rafael Sabatini Sir Walter Scott and the penny-bloods. Paul Di Filippo author of The Big Get-Even Quillifernow a member of the nobilityfinds himself further immersed in court politics as the outcast princess Floria is suddenly in a position of power with a rebellion stoked by a certain brilliant tactician in this thrilling sequel to Quillifer. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant conspirator. The ambitious young Quillifer was been knighted for services to the crown but was then banished from court by a queen who finds him obnoxious. Now after a two-year voyage to improve his fortunes Quillifer returns to court and is plunged immediately into a maelstrom of intrigue that triggers duels plots amours and rollicking adventure. Bounding back and forth from the high councils of state to the warm bed of his mistress Quillifer must exert every ounce of seductive charm and low cunning in order to survive. Queen Berlaudas foreign husband brings war in his wake along with a clutch of officials who enforce the royal will with violence torture and judicial murder. A dragon menaces the realm and political conspiracy threatens the life of Quillifers young patroness Princess Floria. Its the traditional job of a knight to fight dragons and rescue princesses but Quillifer is hardly a traditional knight and he brings to the job an array of unorthodox skills that dazzles his swarm of rivals seduces their wives and threatens the realm. But theres a greater menace to Quillifer than deadly political intrigue for once again he finds himself hunted by the cruel beautiful and vengeful goddess Orlanda.
language: None
title: Quillifer the Knight
publisher: Gallery / Saga Press