Best selling author Steven Erikson returns with the latest in the
morbid history of the Malazan Empire
In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors
descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention
is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named
Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an
extraordinary destiny.
Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Tavore, the
Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan
stronghold of Seven Cities. New to command, she must hone twelve
thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits but for a handful of veterans of
Coltaine's legendary march, into a force capable of challenging the
massed hordes of Sha'ik's Whirlwind who lie in wait in the heart of the
Holy Desert.
But waiting is never easy. The seer's warlords are locked into a power
struggle that threatens the very soul of the rebellion, while Sha'ik
herself suffers, haunted by the knowledge of her nemesis: her own
sister, Tavore.
And so begins this awesome new chapter in Steven Erikson's acclaimed
Malazan Book of the Fallen . . .