Knights of Dark Renown

by David Gemmel

First published 1989

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The Knights of the Gabala once protected the Nine Duchies, but eight vanished through a demon-haunted gateway and never returned. Manannan alone refused to enter, earning the name Coward Knight and living with the shame of abandoning his companions.

As murder, sorcery and tyranny spread across the duchies, Manannan must cross the gateway he feared. What he discovers destroys the heroic story told about the missing knights and forces him to choose between loyalty to who they were and resistance to what power has made them.