Since Corwin had been missing for so long. Seeking an ally, he headed for Earth, hoping to exploit Flora, but finds Corwin instead. Spined humanoids pursued Random through shadow. He found the tower where Brand was imprisoned, but could not overcome its guardian, a transparent, glass, prismatic, dragon-like creature. Random set out to rescue Brand from the shadow, a land lit without a sun, where boulders orbit each other in complicated patterns. One day he received an unusual Trump call in the form of the Jack of Diamonds, that spoke to him as his brother, Brand, asking for help to escape from an unfamiliar shadow. Random had been enjoying life out in a shadow, Texorami, that he had selected/created to be an ideal place to gamble, hang-glide and especially play the drums.

Fearing that he has been framed for Caine's murder, Corwin summons Random, who tells him the story how he came to be chased across shadow to end up in New York City: Corwin decides to find out what happened to Brand who is either missing or dead, and begins to find his obsession with the throne is a two-edged sword that may cost him his life, as it has his brothers'.Ĭorwin returns to Castle Amber bearing the body of one of the spined, bloodshot-eyed humanoid creatures that had pursued Random to Flora's house on Earth-one that had moments earlier killed his brother, Caine.

It was first published in serial format in Galaxy Science Fiction.Įric is dead, and Corwin now rules Amber as Regent - but someone has murdered Caine and framed Corwin. Sign of the Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, the third book in the Chronicles of Amber series.

The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny