Towers of Midnight

by Jordan, Robert; Sanderson, Brandon; Reading, Kate; Kramer, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781427210227
• ISBN10: 1427210225
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: CD
• Copyright: 2010-11-02
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Summary

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.

The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.

Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel'aran'rhiod and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.

Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men's lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.

This penultimate novel of Robert Jordan's #1 New York Times bestselling series--the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007--brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain. It's time to toss the dice.

Author Biography

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with ""V"" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.

 

Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time®, one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and countless more sold abroad.

 

Robert Jordan died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis.

 

Brandon Sanderson is the bestselling author of books including Warbreaker, Elantris, The Way of Kings, and The Mistborn Trilogy—Mistborn, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. He has also written Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a book for middle-grade readers, and is completing the final books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® series—The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light—based on Jordan’s notes and material. Sanderson teaches writing at Brigham Young University. He lives in Utah.

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“Kate Reading and Michael Kramer are well known to listeners of the Wheel of Time series as narrators who have built up a great store of characters. They also have impressive flexibility in delivering the novels’ many explanatory passages, details of intrigue, and dramatic events…The Wheel of Time has been turning for a long time, and the last battle has begun.” – Audiofile

“This is fantasy at its best and if you have been following the series from the beginning then you can’t miss out by not buying this audiobook.. Mention must be made of the talents of the narrators, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. Both are highly experienced in their field and maek the book come to life in a very special and individual way. Now, this was no easy task. As we know the number of characters equals the number of visible stars in the night sky and to do them justice you've got to have great skills of narration. I think the narrators excelled at their task.”  – SFCrowsnest.com

“Sanderson continues to do a splendid and seamless job of concluding Robert Jordan’s lauded life work… leaving readers/listeners more keen than ever for the long awaited conclusion, A Memory of Light.” – Bookloons.com

“Michael Kraemer and Kate Reading have narrated all of the previous books, and continue to give peerless performances.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades, just as the experience of the First World War and its aftermath gave its imprint to J. R. R. Tolkien’s work.”--The New York Times on The Wheel of Time®