The thin executioner
By: by Darren Shan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780316078658
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.