A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey
Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds.
Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.
Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.
The series
In a world where faith is fragile and monsters wear the skins of both saints and sinners, The Devils carves its mark with quiet brutality and wicked charm. This dark fantasy series doesn’t ask whether evil can be used for good—it demands it. And then it watches, grimly amused, as the price comes due.
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At the center of the story is a cleric, once devout, now conscripted into a mission that smells more like damnation than divine purpose. His companions? Not heroes. Not even close. A vampire with secrets buried in blood-soaked history, a werewolf with little left to lose, a knight who can’t die but wishes he could—each one chosen not for virtue, but for their lethal utility. Together, they march toward a goal that is less about salvation and more about control, power, and a cold reckoning.
What sets this series apart isn’t just its gritty atmosphere or the violence that simmers beneath every interaction. It’s the moral rot that festers in the background—the slow decay of once-sacred institutions, the blurred lines between heresy and necessity. The world here is dense with ruined glory and crumbling doctrine, and the story doesn’t shy away from asking what happens when the only way forward is through blood.
Told with a blade-sharp wit and a talent for peeling back the polished veneer of fantasy tropes, this is grimdark fiction with teeth. Its tone is merciless, its characters deeply flawed, and its setting steeped in menace. But there’s also something magnetic in the chaos—an honesty in the ugliness, and a strange kind of beauty in watching monsters try, in their own way, to hold the end of the world at bay.
For readers drawn to morally complex stories, immersive world-building, and fantasy that doesn’t flinch from the dark, The Devils offers a descent worth taking. Just don’t expect to come out clean.
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