Read an exclusive excerpt from R.A. Salvatore’s new Drizzt novel, Glacier’s Edge

polygon.com:

Dungeons & Dragons’ most beloved drow, Drizzt Do’Urden, is back in R.A. Salvatore’s latest novel. Glacier’s Edge is the second book in the Way of the Drow series, and it picks up where Starlight Enclaveleft off in 2021. In it, fan-favorite characters Catti-brie, Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Zaknafein come across a society of drow unlike any previously discovered in the Forgotten Realms. Polygon is proud to present this exclusive excerpt.

On Aug. 9, the novel began shipping from online retailers and independent booksellers nationwide — including signed copies available at Barnes & Noble.

They entered a wide lane of taverns and brothels, some free-standing construction, others carved into stalagmites, and still others no more than walls of fabric hardly shielding the movements within.

Dininae knew this place from the days when he had been called Dinin, at that time the Secondboy of House Do’Urden. He had come here often to play, to gamble, to fight – anything to break the monotony of his existence as the lowest noble of Matron Malice’s court. The Braeryn seemed quieter now to him, and quite a bit. At first, he figured that due to recent events— the march to the surface, the brewing troubles, and the war with the demon hordes that had been fought here in Menzoberranzan only a few years below—but as he and Voselly continued their walk, he realized that no, that wasn’t it at all.

The shelves were stocked, racks of dirty glasses piled at the end of every bar.

Which meant this wasn’t a sign of decline. No, this day, this moment, the avenue was strangely empty.

He did see a few patrons and potential customers, some leaning on the bars, some standing with the prostitutes as if striking a bargain, a couple pitching bones in a