Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

‘Do you think this is what Ankran would have wanted?’ he muttered. ‘To be dead?’ said Jaud. ‘I doubt it.’

‘What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?’ asked Nothing.

‘You are ragged for a merchant.’ ‘I didn’t say I was a good one.’ ‘And young,’ said the captain. ‘I didn’t say I was an old one.’ ‘Where is your ship?’ ‘At sea.’ ‘Why are you not aboard?’ ‘I thought it wise to leave before it touched the bottom.’