Written by Steven Erikson
Read by John Haag
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The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last
rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the
fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege
to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy.
For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was
slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its
smell is of death.

But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening
moves.
The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism
threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides, the ground-rules
have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly and the first blood spilled
will be in the mortal world.

A world in which a host of characters, familiar and new, including Heboric
Ghost Hands, the possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a killer,
the warrior Karsa Orlong and the two ancient wanderers Icarium and Mappo--each
searching for such a fate as they might fashion with their own hands,
guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But
now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are disinclined to be
kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And, the prize? Nothing
less than existence itself...

Here is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent Malazan
Book of the Fallen--hailed as an epic of the imagination and acknowledged
as a fantasy classic in the making.