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To the artists responsible for somehow making me look classy: Didier Graffet, Dave Senior and Laura Brett.To editors across the Pond: Devi Pillai and Lou Anders. To other hard-bitten professionals who’ve provided various mysterious services: Robert Kirby, Darren Turpin, Matthew Amos, Lionel Bolton. To all the writers whose paths have crossed mine either electronically or in the actual flesh, and who’ve provided help, laughs and a few ideas worth stealing, including but by no means limited to: James Barclay, Mark Billingham, Peter V. Brett, Stephen Deas, Roger Levy, Tom Lloyd, Joe Mallozzi, George R. R. Martin, John Meaney, Richard Morgan, Mark Charan Newton, Garth Nix, Adam Roberts, Pat Rothfuss, Marcus Sakey, Wim Stolk and Chris Wooding. And lastly, yet firstly:
She who wields the Father of Red Pens, which cannot be drawn without being blooded, a fearless champion on the battlefield of publishing, my editor, Gillian Redfearn. I mean, someone’s got to do the actual fighting … Copyright
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © Joe Abercrombie 2011
Axe illustration © Didier Graffet/Bragelonne 2010
Map © Dave Senior 2010
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First published in Great Britain in 2011
by Gollancz
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This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.
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Table of Contents
Praise for Joe Abercrombie Also by Joe Abercrombie from Gollancz Order of Battle BEFORE THE BATTLE The Times The Peacemaker The Best of Us Black Dow What War? Old Hands New Hands Reachey The Right Thing DAY ONE Silence Ambition Give and Take The Very Model Scale Ours Not to Reason Why Cry Havoc and … Devoutly to be Wished Casualties The Better Part of Valour Paths of Glory The Day’s Work The Defeated Fair Treatment Tactics Rest and Recreation DAY TWO Dawn Opening Remarks The Infernal Contraptions Reasoned Debate Chains of Command Closing Arguments Straight Edge Escape The Bridge Strange Bedfellows Hearts and Minds Good Deeds One Day More Bones The King’s Last Hero My Land DAY THREE The Standard Issue Shadows Under the Wing Names Still Yesterday For What We Are About to Receive … The Riddle of the Ground Onwards and Upwards More Tricks The Tyranny of Distance Blood Pointed Metal Peace in Our Time The Moment of Truth Spoils Desperate Measures Stuff Happens AFTER THE BATTLE End of the Road By the Sword The Currents of History Terms Family New Hands Old Hands Everyone Serves Just Deserts Black Calder Retired Acknowledgements Copyright
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