Before They Are Hanged
Book Two (The First Law)
by Joe Abercrombie
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appears in Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, and Fiction.
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace It_x0092_s enough to make a torturer want to run _x0096_ if he could even walk without a stick.Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fir...
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appears in Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, and Fiction.
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