'Joe Abercrombie is doing some terrific work' George R. R. Martin, author of GAME OF THRONES.
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.
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.
Their 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...
The past never stays buried...
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780575095823
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 728 g
Dimensions: 240 x 163 x 39 mm
Blending fantasy and a western has been done before, but with Joe Abercrombie’s talented approach, this is a triumph.
Returning home to her farm Shy and Lamb, her friendly and cowardly giant of a labourer, find it has...
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I have seen Abercrombie books on the shelves for ages, and never quite got round to reading one, and this is the first of his that I have rad.
It starts with children being stolen from a farmstead by a band or thugs...
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