title: Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
author: Stephen King
description: Peter David has had over fifty novels published, including Sir Apropos of Nothing and the sequel The Woad to Wuin, Knight Life, Howling Mad, and the Psi-Man adventure series. He is the co-creator and author of the bestselling Star Trek: New Frontier series for Pocket Books. Peter's comic book resume includes an award-winning twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk, and he has also worked on such varied and popular titles as Supergirl, Young Justice, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, X-Factor, Star Trek, Wolverine, and many others. <br /><br /> Robin Furth is the personal research assistant to Stephen King and the author of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Complete Concordance, which was published by Scribner on December 5, 2006.
zlib_text: Baldur's Gate II, Book Three
  
  Throne of Bhaal
  
  By Drew Karpyshyn
  
  Prologue  
  Marpenoth, 1368 DR  
  "Hush, Ravia," Gerdon warned his wife. "You'll wake the child. You'll scare
  him."  
  "He should be scared, Gerdon. I'm scared," Ravia replied, her voice on the
  verge of a sob. "You know what people are saying. Executions, public burnings
  . .."  
  "No, Ravia!" Gerdon slammed his fist down hard on the heavy table in the
  middle of the small room his family used as their kitchen. He had crafted the
  table with his own two hands, just as he had made the chairs around it, just
  as he had made the bed in the next room. Gerdon had even built the wooden
  walls around them and the thatch roof overhead. "I will not be driven from my
  land—my home—by this madness!"  
  Ravia shook her head, and her voice was soft as she addressed her husband.
  "Would you rather die, Gerdon? You and your son? The tainted blood runs in
  Terrel's veins, too."  
  Gerdon didn't answer right away, but paced the floor of their tiny hom