Flight from the Dark

Flight from the Dark

Author	Joe Dever
Illustrator	Gary Chalk
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Lone Wolf
Genre	Children's literature
Published	1984 (Sparrow Books) 1984 (Berkley / Pacer)
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	0-09-935890-5
OCLC	11471437
Followed by	Fire on the Water

Flight from the Dark is the first installment in the award-winning Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.

Gameplay

The reader is allowed to choose five Kai Disciplines from a list of ten, and is given meagre equipment. Because the reader has no equipment from previous books, some disciplines, most notably Weapon Skill, may not be useful at the start of the adventure. This makes initial discipline choices and careful movement through the book more important than in some later books. It is however possible to get through the adventure with little to no combat, allowing an astute reader to succeed even with weak Combat Skill and Endurance.

Reception

According to sales figures, this first book sold over 100,000 copies in its first month of publication alone, but the book itself is considered to be among the least exciting of the series. Conversely, the 2007 extended version (Mongoose Publishing) has benefited from a thorough re-working of the story and has been lauded enthusiastically by critics and readers alike.

Re-Release

Mongoose Publishing republished this gamebook in the summer of 2007, featuring new internal artwork by Richard Longmore, and an extended director's cut version of the story, extensively rewritten by Joe Dever. Among the changes made, the start of the adventure is different than in the original version of the book. Instead of being knocked out by a branch, Silent Wolf is present at the Monastery at the time of the attack of the Darklords. He fights his way to the top of Tower of the Sun to activate a beacon that will alert all of Sommerlund of the attack.

It was shortlisted for the 2008 Origins Fiction Award (Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design).^[1]

References

↑ "Lone Wolf returns!", Mongoose Publishing 2007.

External links

Lone Wolf gamebooks by Joe Dever

Kai series	Flight from the Dark Fire on the Water The Caverns of Kalte The Chasm of Doom Shadow on the Sand

Magnakai series	The Kingdoms of Terror Castle Death The Jungle of Horrors The Cauldron of Fear The Dungeons of Torgar The Prisoners of Time The Masters of Darkness

Grandmaster series	The Plague Lords of Ruel The Captives of Kaag The Darke Crusade The Legacy of Vashna The Deathlord of Ixia Dawn of the Dragons Wolf's Bane The Curse of Naar

New Order series	Voyage of the Moonstone The Buccaneers of Shadaki Mydnight's Hero Rune War Trail of the Wolf The Fall of Blood Mountain Vampirium The Hunger of Sejanoz The Storms of Chai

World of Lone Wolf series	Grey Star the Wizard The Forbidden City Beyond the Nightmare Gate War of the Wizards

Other Lone Wolf related works	The Magnamund Companion The Skull of Agarash The World of Lone Wolf

Additional info	List of Lone Wolf media

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