**"The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever
seen."--Gene Wolfe
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In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter
fate.
A noble Byzantine mercenary . . .
A female Florentine physician . . .
An ageless Welsh wizard . . .
And Sforza, the uncanny duke.
Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of
Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of
Gloucester--and make him Richard III. Available for the first time in
nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New York Times
bestselling author Scott Lynch, The Dragon Waiting is a masterpiece of
blood and magic.
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"Had [John M. Ford] taken The Dragon Waiting and written a sequence
of five books based in that world, with that power, he would've been
George R.R. Martin." --Neil Gaiman**