Perfect for fans of Mark Lawrence & R Scott Bakker The Court of Broken Knives is the explosive debut by one of grimdark fantasy's most exciting new voices They've finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes They're fools & madmen & like the art of war & their children go hungry while we piss gold & jewels into the dust In the richest empire the world has ever known the city of Sorlost has always stood eternal & unconquered But in a city of dreams governed by an imposturous Emperor decadence has become the true ruler & has blinded its inhabitants to their vulnerability The empire is on the verge of invasion
- & only one man can see it Haunted by dreams of the empire's demise Orhan Emmereth has decided to act On his orders a company of soldiers cross the desert to reach the city Once they enter the Palace they have one mission kill the Emperor then all those who remain Only from ashes can a new empire be built The company is a group of good ordinary soldiers for whom this is a mission like any other But the strange boy Marith who walks among them is no ordinary soldier Marching on Sorlost Marith thinks he is running away from the past which haunts him But in the Golden City his destiny awaits him
- beautiful bloody & more terrible than anyone could have foreseen