- Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Adventure stories
A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath--Gil, for short--a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword.
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Epic, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Richard K. Morgan
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Tantor Audio, Del Rey/Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9783453525917
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