Cosca's a larger-than-life figure, a garrulous, unscrupulous man who would be pure comedy if he weren't so utterly black-hearted. Temple is a lawyer, in the service of the infamous mercenary Nicomo Cosca. What she doesn't expect is for Lamb to come along. When her brother is kidnapped, Shy gears up and heads out to find him. She lives with her little brother and her placid stepfather, Lamb. Shy is a (forgive me) feisty young woman with a bit of a dodgy (if not outright criminal) past. Whereas the previous volumes haven't been shy about exploring the nooks and crannies of the known world, Red Country is set in wholly unexplored territory. Red Country moves the scene to a new frontier - in more ways than one. Rather remarkably, the latter three books have all been stand-alone stories, although each references characters, organisations and settings from the previous volumes. Joe Abercrombie's Red Country (2012) is the sixth book in his First Law world. To keep things on track, I'll be approaching these books in a more or less templated fashion: plot summary, good stuff, not so good stuff, conclusion. This is part of a Quixotic attempt to read and review all nine finalists for the David Gemmell Legend Award before the winner is announced at the end of October.
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