The Wheel of Time · Book 8

The Path of Daggers

by Robert Jordan

Published
20 October 1998
Pages
608
ISBN-13
9781590073353
Type
novel

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About this book

At 608 pages, The Path of Daggers (1998) is the eighth Wheel of Time novel, sitting between A Crown of Swords and Winter's Heart in the series' famously sprawling middle books, where subplots multiply for volumes before converging.

Its place in The Wheel of Time

The Path of Daggers is book 8 in the The Wheel of Time series. It follows A Crown of Swords. It is followed by Winter's Heart. See the full The Wheel of Time reading order.

In the Third Age, the Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass, but the Dragon is bound to be reborn to save the world — or break it. Robert Jordan's fourteen-volume epic follows Rand al'Thor, a sheepherder from the Two Rivers, as his quiet life is shattered by Trollocs, Aes Sedai, and the growing, terrifying suspicion that he is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, doomed to fight the Dark One at the Last Battle even if it means going mad and destroying everyone he loves. Around him, his childhood friends Mat Cauthon…

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