Promotional Information

With Before They Are Hanged, Joe Abercrombie has broken 9,000 trade sales in the two months since publication, and passed 10,000 in mmp with The Blade Itself in the same time. The First Law trilogy has had a superb reception from critics, readers and foreign publishers. Abercrombie has a unique, smart, wry voice and an ability to make fantasy cliches his own, and Best Served Cold has a very strong foundation to build upon. This will be witty, gritty, cynical and firmly character-driven - everything that has made Joe a fantasy writer to watch

About the Author

Joe Abercrombie is a freelance film editor living in London with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out. This is his best book yet. - George R.R Martin.Joe Abercrombie is probably the brightest star among the new generation of British fantasy writers... Abercrombie never underestimates the horrors that people are prepared to inflict on one another, or their longlasting, often unexpected, consequences. Abercrombie writes a vivid, well-paced tale that never loosens its grip. His action scenes are cinematic in the best sense, and the characters are all distinct and interesting. - The Times.A satisfyingly brutal fantasy quest. Best served cold? Modern fantasy doesn't get much hotter than this. - SFX.

The battles are vivid and visceral, the action brutal, the pace headlong, and Abercrombie piles the betrayals, reversals, and plot twists one atop another to keep us guessing how it will all come out. This is his best book yet. - George R.R Martin.Joe Abercrombie is probably the brightest star among the new generation of British fantasy writers... Abercrombie never underestimates the horrors that people are prepared to inflict on one another, or their longlasting, often unexpected, consequences. Abercrombie writes a vivid, well-paced tale that never loosens its grip. His action scenes are cinematic in the best sense, and the characters are all distinct and interesting. - The Times.A satisfyingly brutal fantasy quest. Best served cold? Modern fantasy doesn't get much hotter than this. - SFX.