The Belgariad · Book 3
Magician's Gambit
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780345335456
- Type
- novel
About this book
Magician's Gambit followed in 1983 at 320 pages, close in length to Queen of Sorcery before it. The unlikely party -- a horse thief, a Drasnian spymaster princess, a Cherek warrior prince, an Algar horse lord -- presses on toward the stolen Orb of Aldur as the five-thousand-year-old prophecy at the story's center keeps unfolding.
Its place in The Belgariad
Magician's Gambit is book 3 in the The Belgariad series. It follows Queen of Sorcery. It is followed by Castle of Wizardry. See the full The Belgariad reading order.
The Belgariad opens with Garion, a farm boy on Faldor's farm who has no idea he's the last in an ancient line of sorcerer-kings, swept into a quest alongside his aunt Pol and grandfather-figure Belgarath when a stolen jewel of world-shaping power, the Orb of Aldur, is taken north by a Grolim priest. What follows across five books is a five-thousand-year-old prophecy working itself out through an unlikely party -- a horse thief, a Drasnian spymaster princess, a Cherek warrior prince, an Algar horse lord -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345335456