The Eyes of the Dragon
The passage through the castle is dim, sensed by few and walked by only one. Flagg knows the way well. In four hunderd years he has walked it many times, in many guises, but now the passage serves it true purpose. Through the spyhole it conceals, the court magician observers King Roland-old, weak, yet still a king. Roland's time is nearly over, though, Prince Peter, tall and handsome, the measure of a king in all ways, stands to inherit the realm.
Yet a tiny mouse is enough to bring him down, a mouse that changes upon a a grain of Dragon Sand behind Peter's shelves and dies crying tears of fire and belching gray smoke. A mouse that dies as King Roland does. Flagg saw it all and smiled, for know Prince Thomas, a young boy easily swayed to Flagg's own purposes, would rule the kingdom. But Thomas has a secret that has turned his days into nightmares and hid nights into prayed for oblivion. The last bastion of hope lies at the top of the Needle, the royal prison where Peter plans a daring escape..........