“<i>The Companions</i> is the best novel [R.A.] Salvatore has ever written. It’s insanely courageous, profoundly powerful, masterfully constructed, and easily Salvatore’s most ambitious work to date.”—Paul Goat Allen, BarnesandNoble.com<br> <br>“After a quarter of a century, R.A. Salvatore just keeps getting better and better, and <i>The Companions </i>is another masterful leap forward for one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time.”<br>—Philip Athans, best-selling author of <i>Annihilation</i> and <i>The Haunting of Dragon’s Cliff</i><br><br>This latest installment in <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author R.A. Salvatore's beloved fantasy saga, <i>The Companions</i> moves Salvatore's signature hero Drizzt into a new era of the Forgotten Realms. As Drizzt's fate hangs in the balance, he reflects on the lives of the trusted allies who stood by his side throughout his early life--the friends now known as the Companions of the Hall. Meanwhile, the first stirrings of the Sundering begin.