โ Scribed by Joe Abercrombie
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Mercenaries are a wonderful thing: they fight as you tell them, whom you
tell them, and when you tell them, for nothing more precious or
complicated than money. And Monzcarro Mercatto, and her brother (and
lover) Benna Mercatto, are the two most successful, most popular, and
most wealthy mercenaries in Styria...but wealthy, popular mercenaries
are not such a good thing. In fact they're a downright dangerous thing.
Which is why Grand Duke Orso of Styria arranges to have them dealt with.
Permanently. With hindsight, he may come to consider this a tactical
error. Through sheer good luck - which her brother doesn't share -
Monzcarro survives the long and fatal drop Orso arranged for her, and
staggers away from her encounter with a ruined right hand, an opium
addiction ...and a plan to come back with a fortune, plenty of bladed
weapons, and a single-minded determination to kill the seven men in the
room when her brother was murdered. Preferably in as gruesome a manner
as she can ...
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