The First Law · Book 4
Best Served Cold
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 632
- ISBN-13
- 9780575082458
- Type
- novel
About this book
Best Served Cold (2009) is the first of three First Law standalone novels, following a new protagonist across Joe Abercrombie's world years after the original trilogy while revisiting familiar faces from the sidelines. At 632 pages, it sits between Last Argument of Kings and The Heroes.
Its place in The First Law
Best Served Cold is book 4 in the The First Law series. It follows Last Argument of Kings. It is followed by The Heroes. See the full The First Law reading order.
A crippled torturer, a vain swordsman convinced he's the hero of his own story, and a manipulative wizard who never seems to be quite what he claims are pulled together by a looming war and the wizard's own unexplained agenda. Joe Abercrombie's First Law world is epic fantasy stripped of most of its comforting illusions: kingdoms are run by the venal and incompetent, battles are chaotic and ugly rather than glorious, and the people readers root for are, almost without exception, deeply compromised. It's the book…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575082489
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788420683324
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575127753