title: Plowing The Dark
author:  Richard Powers 
description: "Spectacular... Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page... Riveting" * New York Times Book Review * "Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world" * Red * "There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius" * Time Out * "One of the finest efforts from the massively gifted Powers, who again probes the fluid buffer between science and the imagination" * Kirkus Reviews * "Superb...powers' seventh and perhaps greatest novel...one of the most astonishing feats I've ever seen in literature." * Washington Post *
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  On the red moon will come the firestorm…
  
  Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to
  the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang
  confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a
  deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.
  
  To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind…
  
  To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to
  uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three
  millennia in the Temple of the Winds.
  
  Lightning will find him on that path…
  
  But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and
  threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay
  the price the winds demand…or he and his world will perish.
  
  Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant bestsellers Wizard's First Rule and
  Stone of Tears, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuou