Toll the Hounds: 8 (Malazan Book of the Fallen) - Softcover

Erikson, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765316544 ISBN 13: 9780765316547

Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2008

Synopsis

A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.

In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted.

Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing.

About this title

Review:

"Truly epic in scope, Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better." --SF Site

"Extraordinarily enjoyable . . . Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics." --Salon.com

Book Description:

The eighth book in Erikson's extraordinary, acclaimed and bestselling fantasy sequence.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0765316544
• ISBN 13: 9780765316547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 832