Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)

by Steven Erikson

‘If he catches a whiff that it’s you—’ ‘Then I’m a dead man.’ ‘And I’m out of work.’ ‘Nonsense. The lasses will carry on. Besides, you are my beneficiary—unofficially, of course.’ ‘Should you have told me that?’ ‘Why not? I’m lying.’