Word and Void · Book 2

A Knight of the Word

by Terry Brooks

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
397
ISBN-13
9780356213590
Type
novel

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About this book

A Knight of the Word followed in 1998 at 397 pages, picking up years later as a guilt-stricken Ross seeks out Nest again for a mission against a corrupted magician in Seattle.

Its place in Word and Void

A Knight of the Word is book 2 in the Word and Void series. It follows Running with the Demon. It is followed by Angel Fire East. See the full Word and Void reading order.

Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy is his only Shannara-adjacent work set in the real, contemporary world, following John Ross, a Knight of the Word cursed with visions of a devastated future America if he fails in his mission, and Nest Freemark, a girl in small-town Hopewell, Illinois, whose latent magic and family secrets make her central to the hidden fight between the Word (order, magic, and the natural world) and the Void (chaos and corruption). Running with the Demon introduces both characters as a demon…

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