A Feast for Crows

The wars that tore the Seven Kingdoms apart have burned down to an uneasy truce, though nobody mistakes it for peace. The great powers are exhausted, and in the quiet that follows, a different kind of figure begins to gather: survivors, outlaws, renegades and scavengers who sense there is still something to be picked from the wreckage.

A Feast for Crows is the fourth novel in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, following A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. Here the focus turns to what grows out of the aftermath. New schemes take shape, unexpected alliances form, and faces both familiar and unfamiliar step out of the shadow of the old conflicts to meet the troubles still to come.

The cast stretches across every rank and trade, from nobles and commoners to soldiers, sorcerers, assassins and sages, all of them staking their fortunes and their lives on what happens next. The title is a warning as much as a setting: plenty will come to this table, and very few will leave it alive.