The Sixth Book of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen from bestselling
author Steven Erikson
The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last
rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the
fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege
to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy.
For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was
slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its
smell is of death.
But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening
moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a
schism threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides,
the ground-rules have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly and the first
blood spilled will be in the mortal world.
A world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, including
Heboric Ghost Hands, the possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a
killer, the warrior Karsa Orlong and the two ancient wanderers Icarium
and Mappo--each searching for such a fate as they might fashion with
their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave
them alone. But now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are
disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And, the
prize? Nothing less than existence itself...
Here is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent Malazan
Book of the Fallen*--*hailed as an epic of the imagination and
acknowledged as a fantasy classic in the making.
