Before They Are Hanged

Newly appointed Superior San dan Glokta has a big problem. He's been hung out to dry. But of course, it's not like they would do it to his face. Instead, he finds himself assigned to hold a city against a siege, which is full of traitors, the majority of the defense led by mercenaries who only need a bigger paycheck to open the gates in the blink of an eye, where his only allies would as soon kill him as lend him a hand, and his predecessor just vanished from his supposedly completely secure rooms without a trace. At this rate, it may be better for him if he became a body found floating by the docks..... Amidst an invasion by the Northmen, Bayaz has recruited Logen Ninefingers, Jezal dan Luthar and Ferro Maljinn for a trip to the distant end of the Circle of the World, where he needs to recover an artifact that was hidden centuries ago.

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