After years spent in the saps under the defenses of the apparently impregnable city of Ap'Iscatoy, Bardas Loredan, sometimes fencer-at-law and betrayed defender of the famed Triple City, is suddenly hero of the Empire. His reward is a boring administrative job in a backwater, watching armor tested to destruction in the Proof House. But the fall of Ap'Iscatoy has opened up unexpected possibilities for the expansion of the Empire into the land of the Plains people, and Bardas Loredan is the one man Temrai the Great, King of the Plains tribes, fears the most. "The Proof House "is the gripping, hugely entertaining conclusion of K.J. Parker's Fencer Trilogy.
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K.J.帕克是英国作家汤姆·霍尔特发表奇幻小说时使用的笔名。
汤姆·霍尔特出生于伦敦,毕业于牛津大学瓦德汉学院。曾为律师,现定居在英格兰南部经营自己的农庄。平日喜欢冶金、锻工、木工等原始手工劳作,对钱币收集、军事研究、中世纪城市规划等学术研究均有涉猎。
他自1987年开始发表作品,在以本名发表历史小说的同时,又以K.J.帕克为笔名发表奇幻小说。而K.J.帕克的真实身份一直保密到2015年才正式公开。
他以K.J.帕克为笔名出版的奇幻小说迄今已有二十余部,多次获得世界奇幻奖。他的作品风格独树一帜,语言风趣幽默,深受读者喜爱。
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