World of the First Law Series by Joe Abercrombie 3 Books Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback

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Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he’s far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it’s his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrince Calder isn’t interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he’ll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn’t have to fight for it himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. 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Best Served Cold\u003cbr\u003e2. The Heroes\u003cbr\u003e3. Red Country\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Served Cold\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSpringtime in Styria. And that means war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere 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, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWar 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpringtime in Styria. And that means revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Heroes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThey say Black Dow’s killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they’ve brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he’s far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it’s his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrince Calder isn’t interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he’ll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn’t have to fight for it himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree men. One battle. No Heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRed Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThey burned her home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey stole her brother and sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut vengeance is following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb’s buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe past never stays buried…\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}