From New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie comes the first book
in a new blockbuster fantasy trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the
age of magic refuses to die.
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new
opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on
the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes
for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a
man who specializes in disappointments.
Savine dan Glokta – socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man
in the Union – plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society
by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money
in the world cannot control.
The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help
of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or
the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the
guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it
will be quite another…
Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster in 1974, spent much of his youth in imaginary worlds, and left school with a good idea of how to make stuff up. After graduating from Manchester University he worked as a TV editor, but he never stopped making stuff up, and his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006. He has since written eight more novels and a collection of stories in his First Law and Shattered Sea series. He lives in Bath with his wife Lou and their three children Grace, Eve and Teddy, and makes stuff up full-time.