Before They Are Hanged

Synopsis

The second novel in the wildly popular first law trilogy from new york times bestseller joe abercrombie. Superior glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run—if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown prince ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory.