På sin 13-års fødselsdag får plejebarnet Alcatraz Smedry tilsendt en pose med sand med posten. Det er en arv fra hans forsvundne forældre. Sandet bliver stjålet med det samme. Derfor finder han ud af, at det ikke var en helt almindelig pose med sand. Med sandet kan de onde bibliotekarer, der i hemmelighed hersker over Tyslandene – lande som USA, England og Danmark – overtage de frie kongeriger. Alcatraz og en gruppe af frihedskæmpere må stoppe bibliotekarerne en gang for alle.

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Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in Provo, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine published by the university. He was a college roommate of Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. He has been nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award. Sanderson married on July 7, 2006 and is a member of the LDS church. After Robert Jordan's death, Brandon Sanderson was selected by Harriet McDougal (Robert Jordan's widow), to complete the final book in Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by Mistborn: The Final Empire. Tor Books made the announcement December 7, 2007. On March 30, 2009 it was announced that A Memory of Light, originally slated to be the final book in the Wheel of Time series, will be split into three volumes.