The Hornbill King: The Grey Feather - Paperback

by Dinnis Thommachan (Author)

A Grey Feather. A century of murder. A killer hiding in plain sight. Grisha the historian is dead-found beneath the Council Fig, her body arranged exactly like the old king's. Same wound. Same poison. Same tree. This is not an accident. This is a message. King Bakul has hunted killers before. But this time, the hunter becomes the hunted. The killer is small. Grey. Unremarkable. The kind of bird you see a hundred times and never remember. She has been murdering the royal line for a century-and she's not alone. Deep in the scorched lands, she has built a fortress. Raised an army. She has been waiting for this war. When Bakul finally confronts her, the forest explodes into battle. From the mist of the Shadow Gorge, an unlikely ally emerges with an army of his own. A young prince duels the ancient killer as the monsoon breaks. And one woodpecker, who has spent decades studying the dead, finally gets his reckoning. The web remembers everything. Now it must fight for everything. Includes a complete scientific appendix documenting the real birds of the Western Ghats.