Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen #8)

Steven Erikson

There is a saying in Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, that love and death shall arrive together, dancing . . .   It is summer and the heat is oppressive. However the discomfiture of the small round man in the faded red waistcoat is not entirely due to the sun. Dire portents plague his nights and ha...