num_pages: 422
description: Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men. And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed ...especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult ...
language: English
title: The Blade Itself
titlecomplete: The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
characters: Shylo Vitari, Sand dan Glokta, The Dogman, Collem West, Bremer dan Gorst, Rudd Threetrees, Malacus Quai, Harding Grim, Marshal Burr, Brother Longfoot, Tul Duru, Jezal dan Luthar, Bayaz, Bethod, Black Dow, Logen Ninefingers, Calder, son of Bethod, Practical Frost, Practical Severard, Arch Lector Sult, Ardee West, Ferro Maljinn
genres: High Fantasy, Audiobook, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 230727
series: The First Law, First Law World
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Compton Crook Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Tähtifantasia Award
publisher: Gollancz