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Toll the Hounds

by Steven Erikson

In Darujhistan, whispers, murder and old tyrannies gather as distant hounds signal catastrophe.

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About Toll the Hounds

It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different- this time the Lord of Death is there at the beginning... Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K'rul's Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen- for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an honourable, once-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his followers. So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another- Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...

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Pacing
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Series

Malazan Book of the Fallen · Book 8 of 10

Content warnings
  • death
  • violence
  • gore
  • injury detail
  • addiction
  • alcoholism
  • child abuse
  • child death
  • sexual assault
  • rape
  • sexual content
  • blood
  • murder
  • grief
  • war
  • colonisation

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