title: Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies
author: Witi Ihimaera
description: Witi Ihimaera was the first Maori novelist and has now published 12 novels, 6 collections of short stories as well as various works for children. Apart from his work as a writer, Ihimaera has also had careers in teaching, theatre, opera, film and television.
zlib_text: **The King’s Buccaneer**
  
  
  Krondor’s Sons – Book 2
  
  
  Raymond E. Feist
  
  
    
  
  
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  PROLOGUE - Meeting
  
  
  Ghuda stretched.
  
  
  Through the door
  
  
  behind him came a woman’s voice: ‘Get away from there!’
  
  
  The former
  
  
  mercenary guard sat back in his chair on the porch of his inn,
  
  
  settling his feet upon the hitching rail. In the background the usual
  
  
  evening serenade was commencing. While rich travelers stayed at the
  
  
  large hostels in the city or at palatial inns along the silvery
  
  
  beaches, the Inn of the Dented Helm, owned by Ghuda Bule, catered to
  
  
  a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing
  
  
  crops into the city, and rural soldiers.
  
  
  ‘Do I have
  
  
  to summon the city guards!’ cried the woman from inside the
  
  
  common room.
  
  
  A large man,
  
  
  Ghuda had found enough hard work keeping up the inn that he hadn’t
  
  
  run to fat and he still kept his weapons finely honed; more times
  
  
  than he cared to recall, he had been forced to toss one or another
  
  
  customer through the do