Random House presents the audiobook release of Deadhouse Gates: Malazan Reserve of the Fallen 2 by Steven Erikson, read by Ralph Lister.

Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters in the brink of anarchy. In the huge dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik gathers an military around her in planning for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it’ll embroil in another of the bloodiest issues they have about Deadhouse Gates: Malazan Book from the Fallen 2 ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust that will shape destinies and present birth to legends…

In the Otataral mines, Felisin, youngest daughter from the disgraced House of Paran, dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Get away leads her to raraku, where her soul will become reborn and her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners, Fiddler and the assassin Kalam, possess vowed to come back the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland, and to confront and eliminate the Empress Laseen, but occasions will overtake them too. On the other hand, Coltaine, the charismatic commander from the Malaz 7th Military, will lead his battered, war-weary troops in a last, valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees and, by doing this, protected an illustrious place in the Empire’s chequered background. And into this blighted land come two historic wanderers, Mappo and his half-Jaghut partner Icarium, bearers of a devastating magic formula that threatens to break free of its chains…

Occur a brilliantly-realized globe ravaged by anarchy and dark, uncontrollable magic, Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling, brutal second chapter in the Malazan Reserve from the Fallen. A powerful novel of battle, intrigue and betrayal, it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, creativity and originality – a fresh get better at of epic dream.

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