Best Served Cold - by Joe Abercrombie (Paperback)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Duke Orso imagines that he can become king by ending the civil wars that have devastated Styria, but he errs by trying to kill his overly popular general, mercenary Monza Murcatto. Recovering from her massive massive injuries and mourning her murdered brother, Monza vows vengeance on Orso and half a dozen of his accomplices.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Springtime in Styria. And that means war.</b> <p/>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, and behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. <p/>War 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. <p/>Her 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. . .<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out. This is his best book yet. --- George R.R. Martin <p/>Joe Abercrombie takes the grand tradition of high fantasy literature and drags it down into the gutter, in the best possible way. Monza is a beautiful mercenary who has sworn to kill the seven men who tried to kill her. No elves, no wands - just lots of down-and-dirty swordplay. --- <i>Time <p/></i>Abercrombie is both fiendishly inventive and solidly convincing, especially when sprinkling his appallingly vivid combat scenes with humor so dark that it's almost ultraviolet. --- <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joe Abercrombie</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Red Country</i> and the First Law trilogy: <i>The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged</i>, and <i>Last Argument of Kings</i>. He is a full-time writer and occasional freelance film editor who lives in Bath, England with his wife and three children.
Price History
Cheapest price in the interval: 17.79 on November 8, 2021
Most expensive price in the interval: 17.79 on December 20, 2021
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us