Random House presents the audiobook model of Midnight Tides: Malazan Reserve from the Fallen 5 by Steven Erikson, read by Michael Page.

After decades of warfare, the five tribes from the Tiste Edur have finally united under the implacable rule from the Warlock King from the Hiroth. But peacefulness continues to be exacted at a terrible price – a pact made with a concealed power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst lethal.

South, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all of its less-civilised about Midnight Tides: (Malazan Book of the Fallen 5) neighbours with rapacious, cold-blooded hunger. All, that’s, save one – the Tiste Edur. For Lether can be getting close to a long-prophesied renaissance – from kingdom and lost colony from the First Empire to Empire reborn. Therefore its people have fixed their passionate gazes northward, to the wealthy and abundant lands and coasts of the Tiste Edur. And under the suffocating excess weight of precious metal, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword, it appears the Tiste Edur must fall. Roughly Destiny offers decreed.

As the gathering for any pivotal treaty between the two nears, ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two civilisations is normally but a pale representation of a far more profound, primal fight – a confrontation with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the craving for vengeance at its heart.

Among the Tiste Edur — among Trull Sengar’s people — it is believed the darkest hungers of the spirit arrive on the tides from the south, and these tides arrive at midnight…

Battle and betrayal, magic and myth collide with this, the stunning 5th section in Steven Erikson magnificent ‘Malazan Publication from the Fallen’ series – a monumental accomplishment that is getting hailed by visitors and critics as well while an epic of the creativity and a fantasy basic in the building.

(c) 2004, Steven Erikson (P) 2019 Brilliance