β Scribed by Cook, Glen
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Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The Night goes on, in dread. The world goes on, in dread. The ice builds and slides southward.
New kings come. A new empress will rule. Another rump polishes the Patriarchal Throne.
But there is something new under the sun. The oldest and fiercest of the Instrumentalities has been destroyed--by a mortal. There is no new Windwalker, nor will there ever be.
The world, battered by savage change, limps toward its destiny. And the ice is coming.
Working God's Mischief is the savage, astounding new novel of the Instrumentalities of the Night, by Glen Cook, a modern master of military fantasy.
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The latest novel in the Instrumentalities of the Night poses a whole new set of crises. The empress is dead. The patriarch is a hunted fugitive, in no position to sort out the consequences of the impending war of the gods. And that war will be the worse for the most potent of the Instrumentalities, the Windwalker, having been slain by a mortal. This makes the Instrumentalities uneasy, and uneasy gods are not pleasant to have around. The tone is even darker for the story being told mostly from the point of view of the grunts or at least their leaders, who must lay their lives on the line so often that, even if their side wins, they will not be around to enjoy it. But then, Glen Cook has been doing that in his fantasy since The Black Company (1984) and still does it very well. --Roland Green
βCook follows up on his lauded Black Company military fantasy with another powerful series, combining a fast-moving plot with a harsh, credible world of religious conflicts, ravenous aristocrats, and refugees struggling to survive.β βVOYA on Lord of the Silent Kingdom
βThe thing about Glen Cook is that with The Black Company he singlehandedly changed the face of fantasy--something a lot of people didn't notice and maybe still don't. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clichΓ© archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.β βSteven Erikson, New York Times bestselling author of the Malazan series
Library : Fantasy
Universes : Instrumentalities of the Night [04]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780765379269
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