by K. J. Parker (Author)
COLOURS IN THE STEEL and THE BELLY OF THE BOW, the first two volumes of the Fencer Trilogy, introduced a remarkable new voice in fantasy fiction. THE PROOF HOUSE is the final volume in K.J. Parker's brilliant Fencer Trilogy.
After years spent in the saps under the defences of the apparently impregnable city of Ap' Iscatoy, Bardas Loredan, sometime fencer-at-law and the betrayed defender of the famed Triple City, is suddenly a hero of the Empire. His reward is a boring administrative job in a backwater, watching armour tested to destruction in the Proof House. But the fall of Ap' Iscatoy has opened up unexpected possibilities for the expansion of the Empire into the land of the Plains people, and Bardas Loredan is the one man Temrai the Great, King of the Plains tribes, fears the most...
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 610
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 05 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1841490180
ISBN 13: 9781841490182
Book Overview: * To be featured on the Orbit website and in the electronic newsletter. * Review coverage expected in the genre press.