Toll the Hounds

Toll the Hounds

infobox Book |
name = Toll the Hounds
title_orig =
translator =


author = Steven Erikson
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country = United Kingdom & United States
language = English
series = Malazan Book of the Fallen
genre = Fantasy, Novel
publisher = Bantam (UK & Canada) & Tor Books (USA)
release_date = June 30, 2008 (Bantam) & September 16, 2008 (Tor)
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 896 (Bantam) & 864 (Tor)
isbn = ISBN 0-593-04638-2 (UK hardcover edition) & ISBN 0-765-31008-2 (US hardcover edition)
preceded_by = Reaper's Gale
followed_by = Dust of Dreams (forthcoming)

"Toll the Hounds" is the eighth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the "Malazan Book of the Fallen". The Bantam Press hardcover was published on June 30, 2008 and the Tor Books trade paperback on September 16, 2008.

ynopsis

In Darujhistan, the saying goes that Love and Death shall arrive together, dancing... It is summer and the heat is oppressive, yet the discomfiture of the small rotund man in the faded red waistcoat is not entirely due to the sun. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city's streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways but it seems the hunters have become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. Strangers have arrived, and while the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. All is palpably not well. And in Black Coral too, ruled over by Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, something is afoot - memories of ancient crimes surface, clamouring for revenge, so it would seem that Love and Death are indeed about to make their entrance.

External links

* [http://www.malazanempire.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9621 "Toll The Hounds Prologue"] at [http://www.malazanempire.com/site/index.shtml Malazan Empire]


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