Ruffians & Roughnecks: The Sorcerer

credit: PJ Fitzpatrick

Since early December last year, I’ve been running the Ruffians & Roughnecks post series every Friday, taking a word that describes some variant 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 has been accompanied by a relevant passage, either drawn from one of the two Wall Of Night series novels currently published, or my Kids...