Book description
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 . .
. For any writer to produce work of this quality is superb; that this
sequence marks a debut is all the more remarkable. The First Law
(trilogy) is, I strongly believe, a seminal work of modern fantasy. It
is a benchmark sequence that should be regarded as an example of all
that is truly great in today's genre fiction. It stands way above the
vast majority of the marketplace. It's damn good stuff!'
