I liked this book. A young thief and a man called, "The Knife", go to steal something from a house. After it is stolen by the boy, "The Knife" kills him. Later the boy wakes up. He meets up with some scholars who are working in an old library. They hide him from someone who is looking for him sin...
He popped up without warning. Jute would be prowling through a hall, and around a corner would come Severan, trying to appear nonchalant and just as surprised to see Jute as the boy was to see him (though after a while, Jute was no longer surprised to see him). He turned up in the evening without...
“I do? What look?” Owain Gawinn tried to rearrange his features into a pleasant smile but could not. He was not fond of smiling. His wife, Sibb, was sitting by him, knitting a scarf from red wool. The needles clacked in her hands. “There,” said his wife. “You’re doing it again.” “Doing what?” “I ...
The quartermaster glanced up from his notes to make sure that Owain was paying proper attention. “Three hundred hams, the same again of bacon, six hundred loaves of twice-baked bread. . .” “Hard as rock,” rumbled Bordeall. “One hundred seventy sacks...
From the Files of Mike Murphy The morning sun was as hot as the Devil’s coffee. The pavement was hotter. It scorched up through my shoe soles. Light bounced off windows and the metal and glass of passing cars. People were surly from the heat. The newsman snarled his thanks when I paid for my ne...