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Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye...before it kills her.

Red Country: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Shy 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.

Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Sometimes a woman becomes a warrior Fate traps her in the schemes - and on the ship - of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit.

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, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.

Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre». Por eso, en lugar de formarse como guerrero, al igual que el resto de varones de su estirpe, se ha dedicado a estudiar para convertirse en uno de los clérigos del reino. Sin embargo, en la víspera de la última prueba para ingresar en esta poderosa orden de sabios, a Yarvi le llega la noticia de que su padre y su hermano han sido asesinados. Él es el nuevo rey.

Espina Bathu es una de las pocas chicas de Gettlandia que ha recibido el don de la Madre Guerra. Desesperada por vengar la muerte de su padre, vive para la lucha. Pero tras un trágico accidente en el cuadrado de entrenamiento, su propio instructor la tacha de asesina y se convierte en una proscrita.

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer, 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 and shallow, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.

They 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. Thousands 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.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp.

Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge.

Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell; her brother and sister have been stolen and she's going to have to return to her bad old ways if she's ever going to see them again. She sets off in grim pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he's hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier.

Eine Welt voller Intrigen, Machtkämpfe und Abgründe - lassen Sie sich mitreißen von dieser aufregenden Fantasy-Saga von Joe Abercrombie...

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 specialises 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.

Teil 2: Hauptmann Jezal träumt in der königlichen Hauptstadt von einer glorreichen Zukunft bei den Truppen der Könisgtreuen...

Teil 3: Für den Barbarenkrieger Logan und den zynischen Großinquisitor Glokta hat die Begegnung mit einer lebenden magischen Legende alles verändert...

C'est le printemps en Styrie. Et avec le printemps, vient la guerre. La guerre est un enfer, mais c'est aussi un gagne-pain pour certains, comme Monza Murcatto, la plus célèbre et redoutée des mercenaires au service du grand-duc Orso. Ses victoires l'ont rendue très populaire... trop, même, au goût de ses employeurs. Trahie, jetée du haut d'une montagne et laissée pour morte, Monza se voit offrir en guise de récompense un corps brisé et une insatiable soif de vengeance. Quoi qu'il lui en coûte, sept hommes devront mourir.

Teil 6: Glokta hat inzwischen an allen Fronten gekämpft. Wem kann er jetzt noch trauen? Wer will ihn hintergehen und wer hält wirklich zu ihm...

Teil 4: Während sich die Schlinge immer enger um Herrschende wie Untertanen zieht, reist Bayaz in die verlassene Ödnis rund um die alte Ruinenstadt Adua...

Teil 5: Und wieder muss Logen, der Barbarenkrieger, der eigentlich nur seine Ruhe haben will, in die Schlacht ziehen...

Logen Neuf-Doigts, le barbare le plus redouté du Nord, a finalement vu sa chance tourner : son dernier combat risque bien d'être celui de trop. Jeune, séduisant et passablement égoïste, le capitaine Jezal dan Luthar n'a rien de plus dangereux en tête qu'arnaquer ses amis aux cartes, s'enivrer et remporter le tournoi annuel d'escrime. L'Inquisiteur Glotka, tortionnaire accompli, ne rêve que de voir l'arrogant capitaine tomber entre ses mains. Lui ou un autre... car Glotka déteste tout le monde à parts égales.