{"description": "Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It\u2019s enough to make a torturer want to run \u2013 if he could even walk without a stick.\r\n\r\nNorthmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem \u2013 he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world.\r\n\r\nAnd Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters. If they didn\u2019t hate each other quite so much.\r\n\r\nAncient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven \u2013 but not before they are hanged.", "title": "Before they are hanged", "key": "/works/OL8400946W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2801083A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14595640], "subjects": ["Fiction, fantasy, general", "Fiction, fantasy, epic", "Fiction, war & military", "Fiction, action & adventure", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Kings and rulers", "Fiction", "Imaginary wars and battles", "Fantasy fiction", "Rois et souverains", "Romans, nouvelles", "Guerres et batailles imaginaires", "FICTION / Fantasy / Epic", "FICTION / Action & Adventure", "FICTION / Fantasy / Historical", "FICTION / War & Military", "Quests (Expeditions)", "Good and evil", "Adventure fiction", "Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction", "Voyages and travels -- Fiction", "Guerres et batailles imaginaires -- Romans, nouvelles, etc", "Voyages -- Romans, nouvelles, etc", "Voyages and travels"], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T22:45:29.339312"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-09T12:44:16.759013"}}