So the boy Hawk, who was a man now, a man whose mortal coil was no different from that of any other, walked out of the mists into the valley, alive and well and whole, and went in search of his life.

The Gypsy Morph is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living

or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Terry Brooks

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DELREYis a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-345-50955-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brooks, Terry.

The gypsy morph / Terry Brooks.

p. cm.—(The genesis of Shannara)

1. Shannara (Imaginary place)—Fiction. 2. Elves—Fiction.

I. Title. II. Series.

PS3552.R6596G97 2008

813’.54—dc22

2008016680

v1.0

FORANNESIBBALD

Agent and friend, the Queen of the Silver River

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

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Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight

Twenty-Nine

Thirty

Thirty-One

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Three

Thirty-Four

Thirty-Five

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