The author of the million-copy best-seller emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the arthurian legend playing out in modern England. Is a brilliantly realized n...The author of the million-copy best-seller emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the arthurian legend playing out in modern England. Is a brilliantly realized narrative that begins in arthurian times and jumps boldly to our own 20th-century dark age of war, pollution, predation, and hatred--with a message of hope.