Red Country (World of the First Law Book 3)

Red Country (World of the First Law Book 3)

by Joe Abercrombie

4.6 (9,093)

4.6 stars from 9,093 reviews. One of the highest rated Fantasy books we track.

609 pages~10.2 hr readPublished by Hachette UKPublished 2012-10-18

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Fans of these authors will like this...

  • Neil Gaiman
  • Scott Lynch
  • Brandon Sanderson

Fans of these books will like this...

  • The Name of the Wind
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora
  • The First Law

Perfect for you if...

  • You love grimy fantasy Westerns where morally grey characters do terrible things for understandable reasons.
  • You've read the First Law trilogy and want to revisit that world with fresh faces and old favourites.
  • You appreciate dark humour mixed with brutal action, where the stakes feel genuinely high and nobody's guaranteed to survive.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You prefer straightforward heroes and clear moral lines in your fantasy.
  • You want a quick, light read. This is 600+ pages of slow-burn tension and complex character work.
  • You're looking for romance or hope as central themes. Red Country is about violence, survival, and the weight of the past.

About this book

Shy South's home has been burned and her brother and sister stolen. She sets out for vengeance, accompanied only by a pair of oxen and her elderly step-father Lamb. Shy hopes to recover her family, but must return to violent methods she thought she'd left behind. Lamb carries secrets of his own—a buried past that resurfaces as they travel. Their journey crosses barren plains to a frontier town consumed by gold fever, through feuds, duels, and massacres, and into unmapped mountains where they face a reckoning with the Ghosts. Along the way, they are forced into an uneasy alliance with Nicomo Cosca, a soldier of fortune, and his lawyer Temple. Red Country is set in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. The novel features the return of Logen Ninefingers.

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