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The Heroes

Joe Abercrombie

Standalone (First Law World)

About The Heroes

Three days of a single battle in Abercrombie's First Law world, told from both sides of the lines — soldiers, generals, and bystanders — as a war that no one believes in grinds through its appointed brutality. A standalone that proves Abercrombie can do everything Sanderson does with scope and consequence, just stripped of any illusion that heroism is real.

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