The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

by Joe Abercrombie

‘War is terrible, isn’t it?’ ‘It blights the landscape, throttles commerce and industry, kills the innocent and rewards the guilty, thrusts honest men into poverty and lines the pockets of profiteers, and in the end produces nothing but corpses, monuments and tall tales.’

‘You can’t say that civilisation don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way’