The Blade Itself
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
'Delightfully twisted and evil' GUARDIAN
'Highly recommended ... seek it out' Joe Hill
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.
Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.
And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed...
...especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult...
Customer Reviews
Perfect except for one very annoying thing !!!!
Awesome story, read almost perfectly (I can’t imagine the characters with any other voice than they are given in this) however, it’s too late now but, why pronounce grimace that way …? It really highlights how often the author leans on this word ! Almost perfect !
One of the best fantasy books I have read
A brilliant book brilliantly narrated. I have read this before years ago and forgot how good it was, the narrator has a wide range of impersonations to really bring each character to life
Apple steals your money
I had this down loaded and they stole it, removed it from my library.. disgusting