The Wheel of Time · Book 8
The Path of Daggers
- Published
- 20 October 1998
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN-13
- 9781590073353
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250252098
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789866712562
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356214221