The Court of Broken Knives

Name: The Court of Broken Knives
Author: Anna Smith Spark
ISBN: 9780008204068

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The Court of Broken Knives was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and shortlisted for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award. It is the richest empire the world has ever known, and it is also doomed--but only one man can see it. Haunted by prophetic dreams, Orhan has hired a company of soldiers to cross the desert to reach the capital city. Once they enter the palace, they have one mission: kill the emperor, then all those who remain. Only from the ashes can a new empire be built. The company is a group of good, ordinary soldiers for whom this is a mission like any other. But the strange boy Marith who walks among them is no ordinary soldier. Though he is young, ambitious, and impossibly charming, something dark hides in Marith's past--and in his blood.

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