Name: Best Served Cold
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Author: Joe Abercrombie
ISBN: 9780316198356

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joe Abercrombie

Publisher

Orbit

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

672

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN

0316198358

ISBN13

9780316198356

Synopsis "Best Served Cold "

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, and behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular -- a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started. . .

Joe Abercrombie

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Joe Abercrombie (Lancaster, United Kingdom, 1974) is an acclaimed English dark fantasy author. He first gained fame with his striking First Law Trilogy (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings), a work that revolutionized the genre with its raw realism and ambiguous characters. After studying Psychology at the University of Manchester and working in the audiovisual sector, Abercrombie fully dedicated himself to literature, expanding his fictional universe with standalone novels like The Heroes.

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