When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him.
No matter how fierce his will, can one young man conquer enemies with power beyond his imagining?.
Treachery and dark magic.
But treachery awaits him in his father\'s castle.
Life and death are no more than a game to him--and he has nothing left to lose.
Since the day he hung pinned on the Thorns of a briar patch and watched Count Renar\'s men slaughter his mother and young brother, Jorg has been driven to vent his rage.
It\'s time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on, to take what\'s rightfully his.
By fifteen, he intends to be king...
By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs.
BOOK ONE IN THE BROKEN EMPIRE TRILOGY Prince of Thorns deserves attention as the work of an iconoclast who seems determined to turn that familiar thing, Medievalesque Fantasy Trilogy, entirely on its head.-- Locus When he was nine, he watched as his mother and brother were killed before him.
It\'s time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on and take what\'s rightfully his.
By 15, he intends to be king.
By the time he was 13, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs.
When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him