Kai Meyer The Cloud People, Volume 3 » Dragon and Diamond « Coverillustration by Joachim Knappe 12+, June 2007 416 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5743-3 hardcover 16,90 € (D) Rights sold: Czech, French, Romanian

The dragons are keepers of the key to the salvation of the world. But the secret of their whereabouts has been revealed. And now the armies are gathering in Ancient China for the final, decisive battle. Creatures born from streams of lave rise from the depths underneath the mountains. Giants, coming from the South, climb the mountains' summits. Soldiers of the Skies are approaching from the North in their gigantic Sky Ships.
Dragon and Diamond is the Cloud People trilogy's virtuosic finale. Eloquently and with powerful images, Kai Meyer leads his readers through the vastness of Ancient China to the mighty Heavenly Mountains - a breathtaking setting for the final and climatic battle against the ether. Kai Meyer is not without reason one of Germany's most successful writers - and with this finale he astonishes his readers and surpasses their expectations once more with his fantastic ideas.

Kai Meyer published his first novel when he was 23 years old. Since then he has written about forty ...