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Jan 27, 2011 · The Heroes. Joe Abercrombie. 4.33. 63,133 ratings3,688 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fantasy (2011) They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls.
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is Joe Abercrombie's fifth novel. It was first published in January 2011 by Gollancz in the UK, with an American edition following from Orbit Books.
They say Black Dow’s killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they’ve brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.
Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he’s far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it’s his own.
Prince Calder isn’t interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he’ll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn’t have to fight for it himself.
Curnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him?
Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail...
Three men. One battle. No Heroes.
Eight years after the end of the original trilogy, The Union and The North are at war once again. In the intervening years, Black Dow has been Protector of the North; or stealer of it, depending on who you ask. He is opposed by Lord Marshal Kroy, commander-in-chief of the Union Army, with Dow’s former companion turned enemy, The Dogman, as a Union-ally. The title is a reference to a Stonehenge-like structure on a hilltop, over which both sides fight in the climatic three-day battle, as well as the grimly ironic deconstruction of heroes in wartime.
The story is told from the point of view of six characters. Curnden Craw, the aging chief of a crew of Named Men, known to all as a real straight edge. Prince Calder, Bethod's younger son, an infamous charmer and schemer among the straightforward Northmen. Bremer dan Gorst, King Jezal's disgraced former bodyguard, and a near unstoppable one-man-army. Finree dan Brock, the venomously ambitious daughter of Lord Marshal Kroy. Corporal Tunny, a long-serving veteran and cynical profiteer, who also does his best to keep his misfit rookies alive. And finally, Beck, a young farm-lad craving to follow in his famous father’s footsteps, until his first taste of the atrocious waste of human life.
In the Northern camp, Dow sends Craw’s dozen to defend the Heroes hilltop, driving-off some of The Dogman’s scouts. Meanwhile, he summons Calder back from exile to play a role in the coming battle. The implication is that Dow would like to see the treacherous prince killed in battle. Unwilling to accept his fate, Calder sets out to reclaim power from Dow, but finds few allies among the Northern warlords, and even his father-in-law urges him to back-off if he wants to stay alive. In the Union camp, the ancient Magi Bayaz shows-up to “help” Lord Marshal Kroy, having brought a new invention to test: cannons.
At the Battle of Osrung, the Union Army enjoy significant numerical superiority, but the Northmen prove a stubborn enemy. On day one, Dow launches a surprise attack, that drives the Union back south of the river. On the second day, a Union counter-attack makes significant gains all across the line, and apparently killing Calder’s brother, Scale. Afterwards, Dow tries to open peace-talks, using a captive Finree as go-between, but Kroy refuses at the insistence of Bayaz. The third day of the battle is carnage. In the west, Calder barely holds back the Union onslaught with some clever tricks. In the east, the Union almost capture Osrung in street-by-street fighting, until Dow’s Gurkish ally virtually destroys the town with gunpowder. In the centre, the Union make it all the way up to the Heroes, only to be driven back with heavy losses on both sides.
After the fighting subsides, the two sides do agree to peace-talks. Dow uncovers Calder's plotting, but is goaded into a trial by combat. Stepping into the circle, Dow doesn't even break a sweat against Calder, but insults his enforcer, Caul Shivers, one too many times. Shivers splits Dow’s skull with his own sword, and Calder is unexpectedly declared the winner. In the peace-talks, the cunning Calder plans to deliberately stall, knowing the Union’s impatience to deal with other enemies will get him better terms. Unfortunately, that night, he is abducted by Bayaz, who explains his ulterior motives for the entire war and all the lives lost; to rearrange the leadership in the North. With Dow out of the way, Calder will serve as his puppet King of the Northmen.
In the end, Calder wrings somewhat out of Bayaz’s trap through brotherly love, as the power behind Scale’s throne. Craw, having spent most of the book dreaming of retiring, goes back to soldiering at the first opportunity. Finree convinces Bayaz to appoint her husband Lord Governor of Angland. Gorst receives the royal forgiveness and returns to his previous position. Tunny prepares to ship-out to Styria with a new bunch of rookies. And finally, Beck returns to the farm, having seen enough of his father's lifestyle.
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Heroes is an American superhero drama television series created by Tim Kring that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006, to February 8, 2010.
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