Joe Abercrombie
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Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, on the last day of 1974. He was educated at the stiflingly all-boy Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he spent much of his time playing computer games, rolling dice, and drawing maps of places that don’t exist. He went on to Manchester University to study Psychology. The dice and the maps stopped, but the computer games continued. Having long dreamed of single-handedly redefining the fantasy genre, he started to write an epic trilogy based around the misadventures of thinking man’s barbarian Logen Ninefingers. The result was pompous toss, and swiftly abandoned.
Joe now lives in Bath with his wife, Lou, and his children Grace, Eve and Teddy. He splits his time between film editing and writing edgy yet humorous fantasy novels…
Joe’s books have been sold in over 20 countries, including the USA, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Germany.
Joe’s BEST SERVED COLD won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award for best cover art. THE HEROES was published in in January 2011 and made no. 3 on the Sunday Times Hardcover Bestseller List. RED COUNTRY, was both a Sunday Times and New York Times Hardcover Bestseller in October 2012.
THE DEVILS (2025)
Europe stares into the abyss.
Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone.
Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous will not dare to tread . . .
And so, buried beneath the sacred splendour of the Celestial Palace, is the secret Chapel of the Holy Expediency. For its congregation of convicted monsters there are no sins that have not been committed, no lines that will not be crossed, and no mission that cannot be turned into a disastrous bloodbath.
Now the hapless Brother Diaz must somehow bind the worst of the worst to a higher cause: to put a thief on the throne of Troy, and unite the sundered church against the coming apocalypse.
When you’re headed through hell, you need the devils on your side.
