Random House presents the audiobook edition of Reaper’s Gale: The Malazan Book from the Fallen 7 by Steven Erikson, browse by Michael Page.

All isn’t well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of one thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agencies of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii top secret police conduct a campaign of terror against its own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is definitely abruptly blind to the future. Conspiracies seethe about Reaper’s Gale: The Malazan Reserve from the Fallen 7 throughout the palace, as the empire – powered from the corrupt and self-interested – sides ever-closer to all-out battle with the neighbouring kingdoms. And the fantastic Edur fleet – its warriors selected from countless individuals – pulls ever closer. Amongst them are Karsa Orlong and Icarium Lifestealer – each destined to cross blades with the emperor himself. That however more blood is usually to be spilled is definitely inevitable… From this backdrop, a music group of fugitives seek a way from the empire, but one of them, Fear Sengar must discover the soul of Scabandari Bloodeye. It really is his hope that it could help halt the Tiste Edur, therefore save his sibling, the emperor. However, going with them is normally Scabandari’s most ancient foe: Silchas Ruin, brother of Anomander Rake. And his motives are anything but specific – for the wounds he keeps on his back again, created by the cutting blades of Scabandari, are still fresh. Destiny decrees that there surely is to be a reckoning, for such bloodshed cannot proceed unanswered – and it will be considered a reckoning with an unimaginable scale…

A brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, this is epic dream at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling.

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