Thomas Covenant is back in the Land - and again the magical world is in mortal danger. The Lords are gathering their forces to fight back the new invasion of the Darkness, and Yur-Lord Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever is summoned by them to take part in the battle. And again, Thomas is unable to understand whether his sick imagination is dreaming of countless marching armies, or is all this actually happening? And the war is gaining strength, and a gigantic wave is sweeping the Country - and neither the soldier nor the Lord has the strength to at least simply not fall in the ranks...

The novel “Illearth's War” continues the series by Stephen Donaldson about Thomas Covenant, begun with the novel “The Lord's Curse,” a cycle that foreign critics consider the second most important work of English-language fantasy after J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”