A HERO TO SOME. A VILLAIN TO MANY. THE TRUTH FOREVER BURIED.The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world¿s greatestempire ¿ but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but allagree on three facts: He was exiled to the wilderness, hunted by a goblin priestess, and sentencedto death by a god ¿ all before the age of eight. How he managed to survive and why peoplecontinued to fear his name a thousand years later has always been a mystery . . . until now.From the three-time New York Times best-selling author Michael J. Sullivan, Esrahaddon isthe final novel in The Rise and Fall trilogy. This latest set of stories sits snugly between theLegends of the First Empire series and the Riyria books (Revelations and Chronicles). With thistale, Michael continues his tradition of unlikely heroes who must rise to the call when historyknocks, demanding to be let in. This is the nineteenth full-length novel in a body of work thatstarted in 2008 and spans four series.