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Europe stares into the abyss. Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone. Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous will not dare to tread. And so, buried beneath the sacred splendour of the Celestial Palace, is the secret Chapel of the Holy Expediency.

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. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch.

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.

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 specialises 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.

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.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded 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. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp.

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.

A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly imagined world from Sunday Times best-selling author Joe Abercrombie. Words are weapons. Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only words. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. She must conquer her fears and sharpen her wits to a lethal edge if she is to reclaim her birthright.

Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Sometimes a woman becomes a warrior Fate traps her in the schemes - and on the ship - of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit.

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

Yarvi, el hijo menor del rey, nació con una malformación en una mano que ha llevado a todo el mundo, incluso a su propio padre, a considerarlo «medio hombre». Por eso, en lugar de formarse como guerrero, al igual que el resto de varones de su estirpe, se ha dedicado a estudiar para convertirse en uno de los clérigos del reino. Sin embargo, en la víspera de la última prueba para ingresar en esta poderosa orden de sabios, a Yarvi le llega la noticia de que su padre y su hermano han sido asesinados. Él es el nuevo rey.

Teil 6: Glokta hat inzwischen an allen Fronten gekämpft. Wem kann er jetzt noch trauen? Wer will ihn hintergehen und wer hält wirklich zu ihm...

Teil 5: Und wieder muss Logen, der Barbarenkrieger, der eigentlich nur seine Ruhe haben will, in die Schlacht ziehen...

Teil 3: Für den Barbarenkrieger Logan und den zynischen Großinquisitor Glokta hat die Begegnung mit einer lebenden magischen Legende alles verändert...

La princesa Skara ha sido testigo de cómo todo lo que amaba se convertía en sangre y cenizas. Al ser la única superviviente de su derrotada dinastía, deberá vencer la aflicción y el terror, afilar la mente y luchar por Throvenlandia como reina. El padre Yarvi ha recorrido un largo camino y ha pasado de esclavo tullido a poderoso clérigo. Ha conseguido que sus antiguos enemigos se vuelvan sus aliados y ha logrado la paz, aunque inestable. Pero ahora la abuela Wexen ha levantado el mayor ejército que se ha visto desde que los elfos se enfrentaron a Dios.

Teil 4: Während sich die Schlinge immer enger um Herrschende wie Untertanen zieht, reist Bayaz in die verlassene Ödnis rund um die alte Ruinenstadt Adua...

Teil 2: Hauptmann Jezal träumt in der königlichen Hauptstadt von einer glorreichen Zukunft bei den Truppen der Könisgtreuen...

Der Meister der düster-grimmigen Fantasy gibt sich erneut die Ehre und mit ihm die Helden, die Hunderttausenden von Lesern ans Herz gewachsen sind: der zynische Großinquisitor Glokta muss sich der größten Herausforderung seines Lebens stellen, König Bethod versucht vergeblich, dem Norden endlich Frieden zu bringen, und der legendäre Barbarenkrieger Logen Neunfinger zieht erneut in die Schlacht. Die insgesamt dreizehn – zum Teil brandneuen – Geschichten aus der Welt der beliebten Klingen-Romane machen Schattenklingen zu einem absoluten Muss für jeden Joe-Abercrombie-Fan.

Die Söldnerin Monzcarro Mercatto hat alles, was sie sich wünschen kann: einen Geliebten, Geld im Überfluss und Ansehen beim Volk von Styrien...

In einer Welt, in der der sprichwörtliche Dolch im Rücken gerne wörtlich genommen wird, ist es gefährlich ohne Verbündete. Das spürt nicht nur der Soldat Leo dan Brock, der an der erbittert umkämpften Grenze Anglands auf die Hilfe des Königs wartet. Auch Savine dan Glokta, Tochter des meistgehassten Mannes der Union, muss auf ihrem Weg an die Spitze der Gesellschaft erkennen, dass Wille allein noch keine Macht sichert.