num_pages: 515
description: Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. 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 Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.
language: English
title: The Blade Itself
titlecomplete: The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
characters: Marshal Burr, Bethod, Malacus Quai, Logen Ninefingers, Bremer dan Gorst, Jezal dan Luthar, Calder, son of Bethod, Tul Duru, Rudd Threetrees, Harding Grim, Practical Frost, Ferro Maljinn, Collem West, Practical Severard, Bayaz, Brother Longfoot, Black Dow, Shylo Vitari, The Dogman, Sand dan Glokta, Ardee West, Arch Lector Sult
genres: Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Dark Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 230802
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