The King asleep, his eyes firmly closed, his mouth hanging open. Your Majesty…’ he heard Hoff saying, and he peered up from under his brows. Who will save them? Could it be Bayez, the First of the Magi? But at what cost?

Our old friend Glokta is of course along for the ride too always a professional, he wastes no time in continuing where he left off…torture, treason, political espionage, it’s all in a days work ever careful to keep his friends close and his enemies even closer, he doesn’t realise just how accomplished he’s been in that particular task! With everyone seemingly preoccupied with their own worries and Adua bereft of any real defences it seems like a good time for the Gurkish Army to begin an invasion. Jezal dan Luthar continues his charmed life although, as they say, one man’s luck is another man’s curse. Logan has travelled North to rejoin his men, although he suspects that not everyone will be pleased he’s still alive and not gone back to the mud and of course wherever Logan goes, so does the Bloody Nine – handy in the battle they are about to face, so long as he remembers which side he’s on. The campaign in the North against Bethod and his men continues with the odds ever against Colem West, the Army of the Union and of course Dogman and his band of mercenaries. In this much anticipated and last instalment of the First Law trilogy from Joe Abercrombie we find the answers to all our questions and some we didn’t even realise existed!

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