The Looking Glass Wars 1 - The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Author:Frank Beddor [Beddor, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Magic, Hargreaves; Alice Pleasance Liddell, Royalty, Inheritance and Succession, People & Places
ISBN: 9780142409411
Publisher: Speak
Published: 2004-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

“I don’t know,” he said. “I was powdering my wig when her image appeared in my looking glass. She must have thought I’d know sense when I heard it, since I come from a ranking family.”

“It sounds suspicious,” the knight said. “Are you sure one of Redd’s seekers didn’t follow you here?” “Please. I’m not new to the ways of subterfuge and secrecy, you know.”

The rook grunted. “It’s a trick, in any case.”

Jack of Diamonds had doubled his family’s fortune since Redd’s accession to the throne. His powers of observation had served him well in a society where only the shrewdest, most opportunistic, most selfish, and least loyal to friends flourished. As a boy, he had frequently accompanied the Lady of Diamonds to Redd’s fortress on Mount Isolation. It was the best education he could have received: watching his mother flatter the queen and paying rare crystals to get whatever small concessions she wanted; studying Redd’s negotiations with arms dealers and entertainment impresarios who wanted licenses to poach jabberwocky from the Volcanic Plains and pit them against one another in Wondertroplis’ amphitheater.

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