The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One

Contents
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
The End
PART I
The Survivors
Questions
No Choice at All
Playing With Knives
Teeth and Fingers
The Wide and Barren North
Fencing Practice
The Morning Ritual
First of the Magi
The Good Man
On the List
An Offer and a Gift
The King of the Northmen
A Road Between Two Dentists
Flatheads
The Course of True Love
How Dogs are Trained
Tea and Vengeance
PART II
What Freedom Looks Like
The King’s Justice
Means of Escape
Three Signs
The Theatrical Outfitter’s
Barbarians at the Gate
Next
Better than Death
Sore Thumb
Questions
Nobility
Dark Work
Words and Dust
The Remarkable Talents of Brother Longfoot
Her Kind Fight Everything
She Loves Me . . . Not
The Seed
Never Bet Against a Magus
The Ideal Audience
The House of the Maker
Nobody’s Dog
Each Man Worships Himself
Old Friends
Back to the Mud
Misery
The Bloody-Nine
The Tools we Have
Acknowledgements
A sneak preview of Before They Are Hanged
About the Author
Also By Joe Abercrombie
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