Mazrim Taim, the false Dragon, is brought before Rand al'Thor. Rand gives him a task, something that has never been done before in this Age and something nobody would have ever expected.

Egwene is summoned away from the Wise Ones she is with, and must accept a new role which she is not sure she's ready for.

Perrin also, feels the pull of ta'veren, and has to make a choice of where to go.

Everything in this book builds up to a climatic ending that changes every aspect of the story. The ending is considered by many to be Jordan's best moment in the series.

Read an Exerpt from the book
Tor Books released an exerpt from this book. It was meant to be a sample chapter for people before this book was published. This chapter was published after Crown of Swords (Book 7) was published, so this was probably put online to help promote the forthcoming book 8 (Path of Daggers)
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About the Book Covers

The images shown on the left are the various covers that have been used for various editions of this book. In descending order they are:

1. U.S. Hard cover edition
2. United Kingdom hard cover edition
3. United Kingdom hard paperback
4. Fursten av kaos ("The Lord of Chaos", Sweden, Part one of this book)
5. Svarta tornet ("The Black Tower", Sweden, Part two of this book)
6. German cover, part one
7. German cover, part two
8. German cover, part three
9. German cover, part four