reaper's gale: malazan book of the fallen, book 7 audible <p>all is not well in the letherii empire. rhulad sengar, the emperor of a thousand deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his machiavellian chancellor, while the letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against their own people. the errant, once a far-seeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. conspiracies seethe throughout the palace as the empire edges closer to all-out war with the neighboring kingdoms. </p> <p>the great edur fleet draws ever closer. among its warriors are karsa orlong and icarium lifestealer - each destined to cross blades with the emperor himself. a band of fugitives seeks a way out of the empire. one of them, fear sengar, must find the soul of scabandari bloodeye. yet traveling with them is scabandari’s most ancient foe: silchas ruin. his motives are anything but certain, for the wounds he carries on his back, made by the blades of scabandari, are still fresh. </p> <p>fate decrees that there is to be a reckoning - a reckoning on an unimaginable scale. this is a brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue, and dark, uncontrollable magic; this is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling.</p>