A Game Of Thrones - (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) - George R.R. Martin

SUMMERS SPAN DECADES. WINTER CAN LAST A LIFETIME. AND THE STRUGGLE 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.

A book by author George R.R. Martin.