The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

by Joe Abercrombie

The general fluffed up with happiness. ‘No, no! The honour is mine!’ ‘Yes,’ said Bayaz, with casual brutality.

I've missed this man

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

‘It’s the Bloody-Nine!’ someone wailed, though it bloody obviously weren’t the Bloody-Nine at all. He was causing quite a bloody panic all the same.

War tips everything upside down. Men who are a menace in peacetime become your best hope once the steel starts swinging.