Ruffians & Roughnecks: The Malcontent (or —Obsolete—Malignant)

credit: PJ Fitzpatrick

In the Ruffians & Roughnecks post series I’m taking a word that describes a type of “bad guy”, e.g. ruffian or rogue, or alternatively a “rough diamond”, such as a roughneck, and matching it with a character from my novels.

As in the A Geography Of Haarth series, each entry is accompanied by a relevant passage from the books, which could be drawn from one of the two Wall Of Night series novels currently published, or my Kids/YA standalone, Thornspell.

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