Description:Superior Glokta has a
problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with
traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your
predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer
want to run – if he could even walk without a stick.
Northmen
have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death
across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them
back and win undying glory. There is only one problem – he commands the
worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.
And
Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a
perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in
the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy
in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even
stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters. If they didn’t hate
each other quite so much.
Ancient secrets will be uncovered.
Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven –
but not before they are hanged.