The King Beyond The Gate - David Gemmell

Tenaka Khan is a hated half-breed. Related to the Drenai Great Earl of Bronze and descended from Ulrich, War leader of the Nadir, he is bandied between the two countries and finds himself at home in neither one. Tenaka is a great warrior and was part of the Elite fighting force known as The Dragon, where he made some friends and killed many enemies. The Dragon are dead, tricked to their deaths by Ceska, the evil new Emperor of the Drenai people.They were ripped apart by his horrific creation; the Joinings. A melding of man and animal, these massive beasts rip apart anything that arrives in their paths. Only one man has killed a joining and that man is ...  Read the complete review

Having only recently been introduced to Gemmell as an author I decided to follow up reading Legend with the second novel in the Drenai series, The King Beyond The Gate. It was perhaps a subconscious attempt to see if I really had taken to Gemmell's work and Sci Fi fiction in general or whether it was simply just that one book. I had a feeling that I had finally found my way into the fantasy genre and having finished the book in just over a weak it would seem that it was the start of a more permanent habit. It's been 100 years since the events of the first book at Dros Delnoch. New leaderships have come and gone but the legend of that day lives on in the memory ...  Read the complete review