title: Grand Conspiracy: The Wars of Light and Shadow (Alliance of Light)
author:  Janny Wurts 
description: Janny Wurts's justifiably skillful and lovingly composed Wars of Light and Shadow series joins the ranks of Robert Jordan's protracted <a href="/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/11700/${0}">Wheel of Time</a> series, et al., as either--depending on which camp you hail from--the height of high fantasy or the deeply frustrating (yet persistent) problem with the genre.
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  Voyager 
   
  Janny Wurts 
   
  GRAND CONSPIRACY 
   
  The Wars of Light and Shadow 
   
  VOLUME 5 
   
   
   
  Voyager 
  An imprint of HarperCollinsPuWisfters 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, 
  London W6 8JB  
   
  www.voyager-books.com 
  This paperback edition 2000 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2  
   
  First published in Great Britain by Voyager 1999 
   
  Copyright © Janny Wurts 1999 
  Janny Wurts asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work 
   
  ISBN 0 00 710222 4 
  Typeset in Palatino and Belwe by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, Polmont, 
  Stirlingshire 
  Printed and bound in Great Britain by Omnia Books Limited, Glasgow 
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 
  system, or transmitted, 
  in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or 
  otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. 
   
  For Roderick MacDonald, with profound thanks far the opportunity to study music under a 
  master 
   
  
  Acknowledgements 
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