'The ancient mapmaker had inscribed a warning within the great empty shadow on his chart, words that echoed down to Dow from half a thousand years before.<br/><br/><i>Here be whales in great number.<br/><br/>And here be monsters of the deep that riseth to feast upon them.'</i><br/><br/>Nearly three years have passed since Dow Amber escaped the ruin of the <i>Twelfth Kingdom</i>. In that time, war has raged across the Four Isles, but Dow himself has been hidden away by his Twin Islands hosts, relegated to a backwater of the war in the company of the beguiling Cassandra.<br/><br/>But when word reaches Dow that Ignella of the Cave has been imprisoned on the infamous Ship Kings dungeon - isle of Banishment, he can be patient no longer. He sets forth on an epic voyage that will take him halfway around the world - - defying storm and monster, betrayal and despair - - to the heart of the greatest battle of the age, and to the discovery at last of his true purpose upon the high seas.<br/><br/><i>The War of the Four Isles</i> is the third volume in Andrew McGahan's momentous Ship Kings series.