The first law. Book II. Before they hang them

The Inquisitor Glokta receives an impossible task - to take the place of the missing mentor in Dagosk besieged by Gurks and prevent her fall. The first Bayaz magician, along with the glorified warrior Logen nine, nobleman, Jezal Dan Lufar and Southwoman Ferro, go on a very dangerous journey to the edge of the world. The path that is full of deprivation and unpleasant surprises, but ... for what? In Inglia, the war between the Union and the self -proclaimed king of the North Betode continues. Everything prophesies victory to the Union, because at the head of the trained troops there is an experienced marshal. But the enemy is cunning, and who knows what he managed to prepare ...
Where will the rock peasant swing? With whom luck will play a cruel joke, and who will suddenly turn their face to? The fate of the Union is not in the hands of the not at all those who are worthy of this