About the Book
The tumult of great powers colliding has passed and the city of
Darujhistan and its citizens can at last get on with what matters:
trading, bickering, politicking and enjoying all the good things in
life. However, not all are ready to leave the past behind. A treasure
hunter, digging amongst the burial grounds that surround the city, is
about to uncover a hidden crypt. He will open the last of a series of
sealed vaults - the one that no other dared touch - and, in so doing,
set free something so terrifying that the knowledge of its internment
may have been systematically wiped from all history.
Fortune
hunters are also at work far to the south. When a fragment of Moon's
Spawn, once the home of Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, crashed into
the Rivan Sea it created a chain of small islands. Legends and rumours
already surround them. The most potent of these is that here is hidden
the Throne of Night, claimed by some to be the seat of Mother Dark
herself. Either way, all who seek this ancient artefact - renegade
mages, hardened mercenaries, even a Malazan army deserter - believe it
will bestow unlimited power upon the eventual possessor. The stakes are
high, greed is rife, betrayal inevitable, and murder and chaos lie in
wait...
Epic and exciting, Ian Esslemont's new novel is an enthralling new chapter in the thrillingly imagined world of Malaz.
