Mad Merlin BOOK ONE Madness For Elias the infant King who saved me Prologue E veryone seems to know me. After fifteen hundred years, they remember me. Everyone knows Merlin. I am, of course, delighted. You're smiling in recognition, aren't you? There was a time when I didn't even know myself. I was mad. I was lost. The secret of my past was hidden even from me. To discover that secret, I walked an arduous and perilous road. I would not have survived that journey, except that I had a friend at my side, a young man everyone also knows. This is the story of how we found out who we were. This is the story of King Arthur and mad Merlin ... . Copyright (c) 2000 by J. Robert King Excerpted from Mad Merlin by J. Robert King All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.