The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land (Paperback)

The he letter had said to meet in a bookstore. It wasn't much of a night for it: early March, drizzling and cold but not quite cold enough for snow. It wasn't much of a bookstore either. Quentin spent fifteen minutes watching it from a bus shelter at the edge of the empty parking lot, rain drumming on the plastic roof and mak- ing the asphalt shine in the streetlights.
Not one of your charming, quirky bookstores, with a ginger cat on the windowsill and a shelf of rare signed first editions and an eccentric, bewhiskered proprietor behind the counter. This was just another strip-mall outpost of a struggling chain, squeezed in between a nail salon and a Party City, twenty minutes out- side Hackensack off the New Jersey Turnpike.