George R. R. Martin’s epic myth masterwork A online game of Thrones is delivered to existence within the pages of this full-colour photograph novel. this can be the second one quantity in what's certain to be essentially the most coveted collaborations of the year.

(Due to the format of the e-book, content material is better seen on a large-screen tablet.)

Novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson should not purely turning George R. R. Martin’s epic myth A online game of Thrones right into a image novel: they're meticulously translating one paintings shape into one other, and taking pictures the difficult nuances of Martin’s novels simply as HBO is doing with the blockbuster sequence. The Abraham/Patterson collaboration is greater than only a trustworthy version. it's a exertions of love—and an exciting masterwork in its personal right.

Now, within the moment quantity, the sweeping motion strikes from the icy north, the place the bastard Jon Snow seeks to carve out a spot for himself between sour outcasts and hardened criminals sworn to carrier upon the Wall . . . to the decadent south and the capital urban of King’s touchdown, the place Jon’s father, Lord Eddard Stark, serves because the Hand of King Robert Baratheon amid a nest of courtly vipers . . . to the barbarian lands around the slender Sea, the place the younger princess Daenerys Targaryen has chanced on the unforeseen in her compelled marriage to the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo: love—and with it, for the 1st time in her existence, power.

Meanwhile, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, accused through woman Catelyn Stark of the tried homicide of her now-crippled youngest son, needs to name upon all his crafty and wit to outlive whilst he's captured and imprisoned within the lofty dungeons of the Eyrie, the place girl Stark’s sister—a girl captivated with vengeance opposed to all Lannisters—rules. yet Catelyn’s impulsive arrest of the Imp will set in movement a sequence of violent occasions whose consequence is fated to shake the area on the worst attainable second. For now could be now not the time for personal feuds and bloodthirsty ambitions.

Winter is coming . . . and with it, terrors past imagining.