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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 specializes 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.

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons, the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone his elite forces. In the heat-ravaged south, the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta.

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 step father 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.

Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: The Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption.

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it’s going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm and there’s only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend and his oldest enemy. It’s time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no-one is safe and no-one can be trusted.

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 single-handed 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.

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.

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.

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.

La guerre est aux portes de l'Union. Son armée, inexpérimentée et mal équipée, est menacée au nord par les barbares de Bethod et au sud par les forces du Gurkhul. Dans la cité de Dagoska, l'inquisiteur Glotka, dépêché après la disparition suspecte de son prédécesseur, se retrouve cerné par les traîtres et les ennemis. Pendant ce temps, la poignée de héros réunie par Bayaz prend la route du Vieil Empire.

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.

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.

Trois hommes. Une bataille. Pas de héros. Selon la légende, Dow le Sombre aurait tué plus d'hommes que le pire des hivers et conquis le trône du Nord en semant le chaos derrière lui. Jaloux, son voisin le roi de l'Union lui envoie ses armées : des milliers d'hommes bardés de fer se dirigent ainsi vers un cercle de pierres oublié, sur une colline sans intérêt, dans une vallée sans importance.

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.

La fin est proche. La guerre ravage le Nord et Logen Neuf-Doigts n'a plus qu'une seule bataille à livrer, sans doute la plus dure. Il est temps pour le Neuf-Sanglant de rentrer chez lui affronter son plus vieil ami, devenu son pire ennemi. Au sud, le Supérieur Glokta mène un autre type de guerre, plus meurtrière encore. Et si ses anciens talents de guerrier lui font défaut, il lui reste ses armes de prédilection : le chantage, la menace et la torture. Quant à Jezal, il a choisi d'abandonner la vie militaire pour l'amour, mais la gloire n'en a pas tout à fait fini avec lui...

Le passé ne reste jamais enterré... Farouche Sud aurait aimé oublier son passé une fois pour toutes. Mais lorsque son frère et sa sœur sont enlevés et sa ferme réduite en cendres par une bande de hors-la-loi, il est temps pour elle de reprendre ses anciennes habitudes. En compagnie du vieux Nordique qui l'a adoptée, un homme lui aussi marqué par ses démons, Farouche entame un long voyage à travers les plaines désertiques. Un voyage qui les emmène jusqu'aux bas-fonds d'une ville cauchemardesque, frappée par la ruée vers l'or, puis dans les montagnes inexplorées, qu'on dit hantées.

Chaos. Fureur. Destruction. Certains disent que pour changer le monde, il faut d'abord l'incendier. Une théorie en passe d'être vérifiée dans le creuset de la révolution : les Casseurs et les Incendiaires ont pris les leviers du pouvoir et la fumée des émeutes remplace celle des cheminées. Désormais, tout sera soumis à la sagesse des foules. N'ayant plus rien à perdre, le Citoyen Brock veut devenir le héros d'un nouvel âge. La Citadine Savine, elle, doit se reconvertir, passant de la quête du profit à celle de la survie, avant de, peut-être, se frayer un chemin jusqu'à la rédemption.

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