The enthralling sequel to Best Served Cold from the New York Times bestselling author of Red Country and The Blade Itself .

"The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out." --George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, on Best Served Cold

They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls.

The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher.

The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them: The Heroes.

For glory, for victory, for staying alive.

"Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror of war, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

" Lord of the Rings as directed by Kurosawa." -- Wall Street Journal

"Magnificent, richly entertaining." -- Time

Read the World of the First Law trilogy:
Best Served Cold
The Heroes
Red Country

Review Citations:

• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780316193566, Paperback)
• Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 57 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)
• Publishers Weekly 12/13/2010 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
• Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2011 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 86 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)
• Romantic Times 02/01/2011 pg. 58 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)
• Shelf Awareness 12/30/0001 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)
• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780316044981, Hardcover)

About the Author

Joe Abercrombie is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Country and the First Law trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings. He is a full-time writer and occasional freelance film editor who lives in Bath, England with his wife and three children.