The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha ik is dead. One lastrebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siegeto this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire s greatest champion Dassem Ultorwas slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding,its smell is of death

But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, aschism threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides,the ground rules have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly, and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world. A world which contains ahost of characters, familiar and new, including Heboric Ghost Hands, the god-possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a killer, the extraordinary warrior called Karsa Orlong and the two wanderers Icarium and Mappo - each searching for such a fate as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone.

But now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are disinclined tobe kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itselfHere is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson s magnificent Malazan Book of the Fallen - hailed as an epic of the imagination and acknowledged as a fantasy classic in the making.

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