A LIFE-CHANGING MISSION FOR A DOOMED ADVENTURERBershad is the most successful dragonslayer in history, revered and reviled. But he was supposed to die. Once, he was Lord Silas Bershad. Then a battle went badly awry, he was stripped of his titles and commanded to slay dragons - so his death might serve his kingdom. He's never lost a fight since but he's still a doomed man, shunned by his peers. Now the king who sentenced Bershad has given him one last chance: kill a foreign emperor and walk free forever. The journey will take him across monster-infested mountains and into a forbidden city, guarded by deadly technology. It might also save every creature in Terra. But can Bershad's luck hold?'Fans of Joe Abercrombie's First Law books will love Brian Naslund's debut'Django Wexler'Part Game of Thrones, part superhero epic . . . a cinematic fantasy whirlwind'Sebastien de Castell'Top-notch adventure fantasy - a stand-up-and-applaud debut'Publishers Weekly