The City of Towers

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The City of Towers
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy novel
Published2005
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN 0-7869-3584-7

The City of Towers is a fantasy novel by Keith Baker, set in the world of Eberron, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is the first novel in "The Dreaming Dark" series. It was published in paperback in February 2005.

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Hardened by the Last War, four soldiers have come to Sharn, fabled City of Towers, capital of adventure, home to the best and worst that Eberron has to offer. After a lifetime of fighting, war is all they know. Now, in a time of uneasy peace, they must struggle to survive.

But then people start turning up dead.

The heroes soon find themselves caught in a plot that will take them from the highest reaches of power to the most sordid depths of the city of wonder, shadow, and adventure.

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