George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks: Book One of the Card Shark Triad

George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks: Book One of the Card Shark Triad - Paperback

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George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks: Book One of the Card Shark Triad
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George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks: Book One of the Card Shark Triad - Paperback

George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Card Sharks: Book One of the Card Shark Triad - Paperback

by George R. R. Martin
$20.00
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Book Overview

An arson investigator uncovers a conspiracy with world-shattering consequences in the explosive first book of a classic trilogy set in the Wild Cards universe created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones.

Now featuring a stunning new cover and an all-new short story!

An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. The uninfected are known as nats.

When a fire destroys a Jokertown church, killing and injuring more than a hundred jokers, nat arson investigator Hannah Davis suspects foul play. Following leads throughout Jokertown, she stumbles on the Card Sharks conspiracy: a decades-spanning plot to eradicate the wild card virus--and everyone affected by it.

But Hannah's findings alone won't be enough to expose the Sharks; it's her word against that of powerful and well-connected government figures, who don't much care about a threat that affects only jokers. She'll need to trace the Sharks' conspiracy all the way back to humanity's first exposure to the virus, learning from those whose lives were forever altered by the Card Sharks. And she'll need to do it quickly, before the Sharks' plans come to fruition--and bring about the end of all wild carders forever.

Book One of the Card Shark Triad
CARD SHARKS - MARKED CARDS - SHOWDOWN
ISBN9780593357897
Author George R. R. Martin
PublisherRandom House Worlds
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages528
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire--A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons--as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). As a writer-producer, Martin has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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