The fifth book in the legendary Chronicles of Amber, Prince Corwin finds his world dissolving around him when his father Oberon, disguised as a friend, steals the Jewel of Judgment so that he may defeat the evil Brand, in an epic conclusion to the first Chronicles of Amber series.

Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and a three-time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad, won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died in 1995 at age 58 from cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.