Shallows of Night

Its place in The Sunset Warrior Cycle

Shallows of Night is book 2 in the The Sunset Warrior Cycle series. It follows The Sunset Warrior. It is followed by Dai-San. See the full The Sunset Warrior Cycle reading order.

Eric Van Lustbader's first published fiction, written well before his thrillers made his name, is a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery cycle set after the surface of the Earth has frozen over. The survivors of that catastrophe shelter in the Freehold, a feudal underground society ruled by lords called the Saardin and enforced by an elite caste of samurai-trained fighters, the Bladesmen. The Sunset Warrior (1977) introduces Ronin, an unaffiliated Bladesman who lives by his own code rather than any lord's, and who…