The size of this book is equivalent to 483 paperback pages.
His name is Dagger - and he is an assassin of the God-Emperor of Arakand. When he is ordered to kill the members of a heretical brotherhood of monks, he spares the immobilized cripple Baladus.
A mistake he will bitterly regret.
Soon Baladus leads a rebellion that shakes the Arakand Empire to its foundations. And at the same time, the God-Emperor's magic, which in the past saved Arakand from the destructive power of the Fire of the Two Suns, seems to be fading...