"In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Thassarian is a renegade death knight, one of the few of his kind to be free of the Lich King's control. Although Thassarian has turned his incredible powers against his former master, he remains feared and despised by most of his Alliance allies. ...

"In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Thassarian is a renegade death knight, one of the few of his kind to be free of the Lich King's control. Although Thassarian has turned his incredible powers against his former master, he remains feared and despised by most of his Alliance allies. Countless players have aided Thassarian in-game as he battles against the Lich King's agents in Northrend, but few fans know the details of his former life. Death Knight is Thassarian's story, a tale that reveals the origins, motivations, and darkest secrets of Warcraft's newest incarnation of death knights."

A Georgia native, Dan Jolley is an American author who writes novels, video games, and comic books, collects unmotivated felines, and should really go to the gym more. His first original novel trilogy, the YA sci-fi/espionage "Alex Unlimited," was published in 2007. In 2016 he launched two new series, the superhero noir "Gray Widow Trilogy" and the Middle Grade urban fantasy trilogy "Five Elements." His latest novel, published in December of 2018, marks his first-ever mystery/thriller, the "southern-fried Stephen King" novel "The Storm." His comics work includes DC Comics' Firestorm, Eisner Award nominated JSA: The Unholy Three, and TokyoPop's The Lost Warrior, an extension of the Warriors novel series by Erin Hunter; his video games include Transformers: War For Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, Dying Light, and Chronos. Dan and his wife, Tracy, live somewhere in the northwest Georgia foothills.