premise: The Wallace is a novel.
hypothesis: The Pale King . It was planned as Wallace 's third novel , and the first since Infinite Jest in 1996 , but it was not completed at the time of his death . Wallace had been working on the novel for over a decade . The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace , also known as The Wallace , is a long `` romantic biographical '' poem by the fifteenth-century Scottish makar of the name Blind Harry probably at some time in the decade before 1488 . Wallace is the protagonist of Hell and Back , the longest of the Sin City yarns written by Frank Miller .