The Orc King

A century's uneasy truce between Bruenor Battlehammer's dwarves and Obould Many-Arrows's orc kingdom is fraying, undermined by conspirators on both sides who profit more from war than peace. Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions get pulled into the unraveling as they cross paths with a band hunting orcs on principle, forcing the question of whether Obould's peace was ever more than a pause. The first novel of the Transitions trilogy pushes toward an ending no one, orc or dwarf, saw coming: a treaty meant to last.