"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
From 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.
It's the first volume in a new epic fantasy by bestselling and
award-winning author Walter Jon Williams.