Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen Series #5)

ISBN-13:	9780765316516
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/17/2007
Series:	Malazan Book of the Fallen Series , #5
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	624
Sales rank:	45,863
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.39(d)

After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth, There is peace—but it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are the best suspect, at worst, deadly.To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslved all its less-civilized neighbors with rapacious hunger. All, that is, save one—the Tiste Edur. And it must be only a matter of time before they too fall—either beneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so destiny has decreed. Yet as the two sides gather for a pivotal treaty neither truly wants, ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of a far more profound, primal battle—a confrontation with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the craving for revenge at its seething heart.