Series: Book 1 in the The First Law series
Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction, General, Fantasy, Lang:en
Summary
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and
increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing
champion turned torturer extraordinaire, 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, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on
his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train
with obsessive and boring old men. And Logen Ninefingers, an
infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a
hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod,
the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by
running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die
really, really hard indeed . . .. . . especially when Bayaz
gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a
pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could
be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make
the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult
. . .