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Before They Are Hanged

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Before They Are Hanged

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Author: Joe Abercrombie
Publisher: Pyr, 2008
Series: The First Law Universe: First Law Trilogy: Book 2

1. The Blade Itself
2. Before They Are Hanged
3. Last Argument of Kings

Book Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags: Dark Fantasy
Heroic Fantasy
High Fantasy
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Synopsis

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It s enough to make a torturer want to run if he could even walk without a stick.

Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.

And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters if they didn t hate each other quite so much.

Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven but not before they are hanged.


Excerpt

Read an extract from Before They Are Hanged on the author's web site: http://www.joeabercrombie.com/books/before-they-are-hanged/extract/.

Copyright © 2008 by Joe Abercrombie


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Before They Are Hanged

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  (4/23/2014)
Joe Abercrombie: The First Law Book Two: Befo...

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  (7/5/2014)
Repetitive & rather shallow

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