num_pages: 507
description: Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era which began with The Alloy of Law comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.For years frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Setwith his late uncle and his sister among their leaderssince they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senatewhose corruption Wax and his wife Steris have sought to exposeand Bilming is even more entangled. After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god Harmony reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger CosmereMarasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost. Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
language: English
title: The Lost Metal
publisher: Tor Books