Showing results by author "Joe Abercrombie"

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer, 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 and shallow, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it’s going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm and there’s only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend and his oldest enemy. It’s time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no-one is safe and no-one can be trusted.

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.

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.

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.

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons, the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone his elite forces. In the heat-ravaged south, the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta.

Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell; her brother and sister have been stolen and she's going to have to return to her bad old ways if she's ever going to see them again. She sets off in grim pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he's hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier.

Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge.

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.

Twenty-one original stories of dangerous women by top genre writers, brought together in a new anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Intrepid warriors, far-ranging spacewomen, formidable superheroines, hard-living bad girls, embattled survivors, private investigators, seductive femmes fatale and haughty queens; as Gardner Dubois writes in his introduction, 'if you want to tie any of these women to the railway tracks, you'll have a real fight on your hands!'

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.

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.

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

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

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...

"Den Halve Verden" er andet bind i fantasyserien "Det Splintrede Hav". Sommetider bliver en pige rørt af Moder Krig. De fleste piger bliver tvunget væk fra træningspladsen med trusler og tæv. Men ikke Torn. Gettlands rådgiver, Fader Yarvi, tager hende med på en lang og farefuld færd til Den Første By for at finde forbundsfæller mod Storkongen. Undervejs lærer Torn at kæmpe uden ære, uden samvittighed og uden medlidenhed.

Hvordan forsvarer man en by, der er omringet af fjender og undermineret af forrædere, når man på ingen måde ikke kan stole på sine forbundsfæller, og når ens forgænger er forsvundet sporløst? Det er nok til at give en torturbøddel lyst til at løbe skrigende bort - hvis han så i øvrigt bare kunne gå uden en sto - og inkvisitor Glokta har brug for at få svar på nogle spørgsmål, før den gurkiske hær kommer og banker på byens porte.

Verden regeres af stærke hænder og kolde hjerter. Prins Yarvi har aldrig selv ønsket at bestige Den Sorte Trone, menda hans fader og broder bliver forrådt, sværger han at erobre den tilbage. Undervejs må Yarvi kæmpe mod farer, forræderi og fangenskab. Men han har kun har én god hånd og kan hverken holde et skjold eller svinge et sværd. I stedet må han hvæsse sin hjerne, så den er knivskarp. Han finder sammen med en flok udstødte, som viser sig at være til langt større hjælp og støtte, end hans fornemme familie nogensinde har været.

Logen Nifingre har måske kun én sidste kamp i sig, men den bliver stor og afgørende. Krigen raser videre i Nordmarken, nordboernes konge holder stadig stand, og der findes kun én mand, der kan bremse ham. Hans ældste ven og hans ældste fjende. Det er på høje tid, at Blodnier tager hjem. Inspektør Glokta, der tjener for mange herrer og har for lidt tid, udkæmper en anden form for krig. En kamp, der foregår i det skjulte, hvor ingen er i sikkerhed, og hvor man ikke kan stole på nogen.

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