George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows

BOOK FOUR OF

A Song of Ice and Fire

HarperVoyager

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Previously published in paperback by Voyager in 2006, 2011

First published in Great Britain by Voyager in 2005

Copyright © George R.R. Martin 2005

Cover illustration © Larry Rostant. Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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Source ISBN: 9780002247436

Ebook Edition © April 2012 ISBN: 9780007369218

Version: 2019-03-14

for Stephen Boucher

wizard of Windows, dragon of DOS

without whom this book would have

been written in crayon

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Title Page A FEAST FOR CROWS BOOK FOUR OF A Song of Ice and Fire

Copyright Copyright HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpervoyagerbooks.com Previously published in paperback by Voyager in 2006, 2011 First published in Great Britain by Voyager in 2005 Copyright © George R.R. Martin 2005 Cover illustration © Larry Rostant. Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2019 Game of Thrones™ The Original Series based on A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin © 2011 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. HBO and related service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. George R.R. Martin asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780002247436 Ebook Edition © April 2012 ISBN: 9780007369218 Version: 2019-03-14

Dedication for Stephen Boucher wizard of Windows, dragon of DOS without whom this book would have been written in crayon

Maps

Prologue

The Prophet

The Captain of Guards

Cersei

Brienne

Samwell

Arya

Cersei

Jaime

Brienne

Sansa

The Kraken’s Daughter

Cersei

The Soiled Knight

Brienne

Samwell

Jaime

Cersei

The Iron Captain

The Drowned Man

Brienne

The Queenmaker

Arya

Alayne

Cersei

Brienne

Samwell

Jaime

Cersei

The Reaver

Jaime

Brienne

Cersei

Jaime

Cat of the Canals

Samwell

Cersei

Brienne

Jaime

Cersei

The Princess in the Tower

Alayne

Brienne

Cersei

Jaime

Samwell

Meanwhile, Back on the Wall …

Appendix: The Kings and their Courts

The Queen Regent

The King at the Wall

King of the Isles and the North

Other Houses Great and Small

House Arryn

House Florent

House Frey

House Hightower

House Lannister

House Martell

House Stark

House Tully

House Tyrell

Rebels And Rogues

Lordlings, Wanderers, And Common Men

Outlaws And Broken Men

The Sworn Brothers of the Night’s Watch

The Wildlings, or the Free Folk

Beyond the Narrow Sea

The Queen Across the Water

In Braavos

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire

By George R.R. Martin

About the Publisher

“Dragons,” said Mollander. He snatched a withered apple off the ground and tossed it hand to hand.

“Throw the apple,” urged Alleras the Sphinx. He slipped an arrow from his quiver and nocked it to his bowstring.

“I should like to see a dragon.” Roone was the youngest of them, a chunky boy still two years shy of manhood. “I should like that very much.”

And I should like to sleep with Rosey’s arms around me, Pate thought. He shifted restlessly on the bench. By the morrow the girl could well be his. I will take her far from Oldtown, across the narrow sea to one of the Free Cities. There were no maesters there, no one to accuse him.

He could hear Emma’s laughter coming through a shuttered window overhead, mingled with the deeper voice of the man she was entertaining. She was the oldest of the serving wenches at the Quill and Tankard, forty if she was a day, but still pretty in a fleshy sort of way. Rosey was her daughter, fifteen and freshly flowered. Emma had decreed that Rosey’s maidenhead would cost a golden dragon. Pate had saved nine silver stags and a pot of copper stars and pennies, for all the good that would do him. He would have stood a better chance of hatching a real dragon than saving up enough coin to make a golden one.