Corvus

* NOMINATED FOR THE DAVID GEMMELL AWARD FOR FANTASY 2011 * 'Kearney's mastery of plot, prose, and exposition is enviable' - STRANGE HORIZONS 'You'll love and hate, cheer and cry, and be shocked by what happens' - FANTASY BOOK REVIEW 'Kearney has once again demonstrated that he is criminally under-read' - FANTASY LITERATURE IT IS TWENTY-THREE YEARS SINCE A MACHT ARMY FOUGHT ITS WAY HOME FROM THE HEART OF THE ASURIAN EMPIRE. The man who came to lead that army, Rictus, is now a hard-bitten mercenary captain, middle-aged and tired. He wants nothing more than to lay down his spear and become the farmer that his father was. But fate has different ideas. A young warleader has risen to challenge the order of things in the very heartlands of the Macht. A soldier of genius, he takes city after city, and reigns over them as king. What is more, he had heard of the legendary leader of the Ten Thousand. His name is Corvus, and the rumours say that he is not even fully human. He means to make himself absolute ruler of all the Macht. And he wants Rictus to help him.