Toll the hounds - Steven Erikson

The eighth book in Erikson's acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy sequence

It
is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each
grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the Lord of
Death is there at the beginning...
Darujhistan swelters in the
summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers
have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and
assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K'rul's Bar. For the
rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is
about to happen: for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds.
Far
away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the
threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an honourable,
one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his
followers.
So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will
shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son
of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...

Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson's debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon,
was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and introduced fantasy
readers to his epic 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen' sequence, which has
been hailed 'a masterwork of the imagination'. This River Awakens was
his first novel, and originally published under the name Steve Lundin.
Having lived in Cornwall for a number of years, Steve will be returning
to Canada in late summer 2012. To find out more, visit www.malazanempire.com and www.stevenerikson.com