HBO's hit series A Game of Thrones is based on the George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A game of Thrones is the first volume in the series. 
 
Summer span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the stuggle for the Iron Throne has begun.
 
As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must... and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.
 
The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He claims the Iron Throne