Book description
Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for
swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life,
although his colleague Kyle wasn't as enamoured with life outside the
mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. However, it seems it is not so
easy for an ex-Fist of the Malazan Empire to disappear, especially one
under sentence of death from that same Empire.
For there is a new Emperor on the throne of Malaz, and he is
dwelling on the ignominy that is the Empire's failed invasion of the
Korel subcontinent. In the vaults beneath Unta, the Imperial capital,
lie the answers to that disaster. And out of this buried history
surfaces the name Stonewielder.
In Korel, Lord Protector Hiam, commander of the Stormguard, faces
the potential annihilation of all that he holds dear. With few
remaining men and a crumbling stone wall that has seen better days, he
confronts an ancient enemy: the sea-borne Stormriders have returned.
Religious war also threatens these lands. The cult of the Blessed
Lady, which had stood firm against the Riders for millennia, now seeks
to eradicate its rivals. And as chaos looms, a local magistrate
investigating a series of murders suddenly finds himself at the heart
of a far more ancient and terrifying crime - one that has tainted an
entire land....
Stonewielder is an enthralling new chapter in the epic story of a
thrillingly imagined world.
IAN CAMERON ESSLEMONT was born in 1962 in Winnipeg, Canada. He has a
degree in Creative Writing, studied and worked as an archaeologist,
travelled extensively in South East Asia, and lived in Thailand and
Japan for several years. He now lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, with his
wife and children and is currently working on his PhD in English
Literature. His previous novels, Night of Knives and Return of the
Crimson Guard, are also set in the fantasy world he co-created with his
great friend Steven Erikson.
