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Brak the Barbarian

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by John Jakes
Brak the Barbarian (Brak the Barbarian #1) by John Jakes
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"My road lies southward, southward to golden Khurdisan; it is the working of the fates that my road lies that way."

In the endless wastes of the northern steppes, beyond the craggy lands of the Ice-marches, strange legends were told of fabled Khurdisan. In those savage lands Brak the Barbarian lived and fought, until he mocked his people's warlike gods once too often, and the shamans cast him out.

But his banishment was not entirely grim. He had a destination – the great crescent-shaped land of Khurdisan that stretched nearly from the Pillars of Ebon in the west to the Mountains of Smoke where the world ended in the east. He would fight his way there, if need be, through the splendour and sorcery of the realms that lay between.

And now, his quest scarely begun, he faces the ageless, undying enmity of Yob-Haggoth, the Dark One, and of his Amyr of Evil, Septegundus of the lidless eyes and the crawling flesh.

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FantasySword and Sorcery
Release date: 1968

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John Jakes

John William Jakes (born 1932) is a writer of fiction, best known for American Historical fiction. Jakes first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. He studied creative writing at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1953. After earning an M.A. in American literature from Ohio State University, he published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns and other sorts of historical fiction, while working in the advertising industry. In 1971, he began to write full time.

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During this time, John Jakes was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies.

John Jakes gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Kent Family Chronicles, which became a bestselling Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s, selling 55 million copies. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American history, including the North and South Trilogy about the U.S. Civil War, which sold 10 million copies and was turned into an ABC-TV miniseries.

John Jakes lives in South Carolina and Florida with his wife, Rachel, to whom he has been married since 1951.

Brak the Barbarian

Brak the Barbarian consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Brak the Barbarian (Brak the Barbarian #1)
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Brak the Barbarian: The Sorceress (Brak the Barbarian #2)
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Brak the Barbarian: The Mark of the Demons (Brak the Barbarian #3)
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Brak: When the Idols Walked (Brak the Barbarian #4)
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The Fortunes of Brak (Brak the Barbarian #5)
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