The Bonehunters

There has been an end to the Seven Cities Rebellion. Sha'ik went away. Leoman of the Flails, a zealot, is leading the lone rebel group that is holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan. The war-weary Malaz 14th Army feels concerned about the idea of besieging this old castle. Because it was here that the greatest champion of the Empire, Dassem Ultor, was killed and a flood of Malazan blood was spilled. It's a land of doom and deathly smells. However, in other places, the beginnings of a far larger war have been formed. The pantheon now includes the Crippled God; a rift is imminent, and sides must be selected. Whatever each deity chooses, the first bloodshed will occur in the mortal realm and the ground rules have altered permanently and terrifyingly. A world inhabited by a multitude of both well-known and unfamiliar characters, such as the two ancient wanderers Icarium and Mappo, the possessed Apsalar, the warrior Karsa Orlong, and the spectral hands of Heboric Ghost Hands, who are all seeking a destiny they can craft with their own hands and willpower. I wish the gods would just let them be. The gods aren't inclined to be kind now that the blades are out of their sheaths. There will be battle, heavens-wide war.And the award? Nothing less than the very act of being...

This is the breathtaking new chapter in Steven Erikson's incredible "Malazan Book of the Fallen," which has been praised as an epic of the mind and is on the verge of becoming a classic work of fantasy.