Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. InA Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed,New York Timesbestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war fever—of Munchkins, Wizards, and Wicked Witches—and especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is trulyA Lion Among Men.