title: Death Dance: Suspenseful Stories of the Dance Macabre
author:  Trevanian 
description: TREVANIAN is the best-selling author of The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, Shibumi, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages. He lives in the French Basque mountains.
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  A Dance of Death
  
  
  
  
  
  by David Dalglish
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  BOOKS BY DAVID DALGLISH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE HALF-ORC SERIES
  
  
  
  
  
  The Weight of Blood
  
  
  The Cost of Betrayal
  
  
  The Death of Promises
  
  
  The Shadows of Grace
  
  
  A Sliver of Redemption
  
  
  
  
  
  THE SHADOWDANCE TRILOGY
  
  
  
  
  
  A Dance of Cloaks
  
  
  A Dance of Blades
  
  
  A Dance of Death
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PALADINS
  
  
  
  
  
  Night of Wolves
  
  
  Clash of Faiths
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  Prologue
  
  
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  Torgar staggered out of the tavern with the blood of a stranger on his
  knuckles.
  
  
  “I want my sword,” he said to the four burly men who had persuaded him to
  leave.
  
  
  “Come get it when you’re sober,” one said as he shut the door.
  
  
  “Well, at least give me my damn drink!”
  
  
  No such luck. The sellsword cursed and howled until his lungs hurt. He felt
  better afterward, though, so he made his way through the streets of Angelport
  back home. Home, of course, was his little room in the Keenan family’s
  magnificen