There's no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along. Swords, armour, arrows - and the bodies, of course.
Over the years, Saevus Corax has picked up a lot of things. Some of them have made him decent money, others have brought nothing but trouble. But it's a living, and somebody has to deal with the dead.
Something else that Saevus has buried is his past. Unfortunately, he didn't quite succeed.
The first novel in a new epic fantasy trilogy from World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker.
For more from K. J. Parker, check out:
The Siege
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It
A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
The Two of Swords
The Two of Swords: Volume One
The Two of Swords Volume Two
The Two of Swords: Volume Three
The Fencer Trilogy
Colours in the Steel
The Belly of the Bow
The Proof House
The Scavenger Trilogy
Shadow
Pattern
Memory
Engineer Trilogy
Devices and Desires
Evil for Evil
The Escapement
The Company
The Folding Knife
The Hammer
Sharps
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356515977
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 260 g
Dimensions: 196 x 124 x 26 mm
“Just as I was about to leave the big tent, a voice called out a name, one I hadn’t heard in years. … He said the name again; then, “It’s me.” I knew that, of course. “My name is Saevus Corax,” I told him. “Do I know... More
Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead is told in the first-person narrative. When we first meet Corax, it is after a battle. Corax, along with his company, are battlefield salvage contractors, recovering what they can from... More
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