Toll the Hounds — Steven Erikson

IN Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that Love and Death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small, rotund man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. Dire portents plague his nights. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds ... and in the city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive ... hand in hand, dancing.

A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue, and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series -- epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.