Plots within plots on both sides of this battle, where you can't tell a good guy from a bad guy, and maybe it doesn't matter with the foe that mankind is facing. Superior Glokta is given the impossible task to defend a city sure to fall, realizing he can trust no one. Bitter enemies will be forgiven - but not before they are hanged.įor more from Joe Abercrombie, check out novels in the First Law World:īinge worthy trilogy. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters - if they didn't hate each other quite so much.Īncient secrets will be uncovered. 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. There is only one problem - he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.Īnd Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country.

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. The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times best seller Joe Abercrombie.

The first law before they are hanged