New Releases by Joe Abercrombie

"Abercrombie writes fantasy like no one else." - The Guardian 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. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . . RED COUNTRY takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, andThe Heroes. This novel also represents the return of Logen Ninefingers, one of Abercrombie''s most beloved characters. First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself Before They Are Hanged Last Argument of Kings Novels in the First Law world Best Served Cold The Heroes Red Country

THE FIRST LAW trilogy is a fantasy masterpiece, now available in a stunning box set. It''s a perfect gift for fans of A GAME OF THRONES; a must-have for fans of Joe Abercrombie; and a great way for new readers to discover one of the most highly acclaimed fantasy trilogies of the past decade.

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. War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso''s employ, it''s a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer''s taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto''s reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. Her allies include Styria''s least reliable drunkard, Styria''s most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that''s all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started... Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.

"O Enniadákhtulos Lóngen ékhei pia dunámeis móno gia mia mákhē - mia mákhē ómōs pou de tha ékhei proēgoúmeno. O Vasiliás tou Vorrá paraménei panískhuros kai upárkhei móno énas ántras pou boreí na ton stamatḗsei: o palióteros phílos tou kai palióteros ekhthrós tou. Eínai pia kairós o Aimovóros na epistrépsei stēn patrída. O Ēgoúmenos Gklókia dínei tē dikḗ tou mákhē, enántia sto khróno kai tous polloús tou aphéntes. Mia mustikḗ mákhē, ópou kaneís den eínai asphalḗs kai kanénas den eínai áxios empistosúnēs. Kathṓs den boreí na kheiristeí pia to spathí, eínai eutúkhēma pou oi ekviasmoí, oi apeilés kai ta vasanistḗria de khánoun poté tēn axía tous. O Tzézal dan Loúthar apophasízei pōs ē anazḗtēsē tēs dóxas eínai mia enaskhólēsē pio epṓdunē ap'' ó, ti písteue, étsi, engataleípei to stráteuma gia na aphosiōtheí stē gunaíka pou agapá. Allá o érōtas boreí na eínai exísou epṓdunos - kai ē dóxa ékhei tēn kakḗ sunḗtheia na se vrískei ekeí pou den to periméneis. O vasiliás tēs Énōsēs aphḗnei tēn teleutaía tou pnoḗ, oi khōrikoí epanastatoún kai oi eugeneís erízoun gia tē diadokhḗ. Allá kaneís de phantázetai pōs ē skiá tou polémou tha skepásei tēn kardiá tēs ídias tēs Énōsēs. Móno o Prṓtos tōn Mágōn ékhei éna skhédio gia na sṓsei ton kósmo. . . éna mállon ripsokínduno skhédio. Giatí ti eínai pio epikínduno apó to na paraveí kaneís ton Prṓto Nómo?" (Apó tēn parousíasē sto opisthóphullo tou vivlíou) --- From back cover.