'One of the most entertaining fantasy debuts in recent years... incredibly vivid, refreshing, fun, thoughtful, absorbing.' - SFX
'Action-packed adventure ... An intriguing tale of magic, manipulation and revenge'- STARBURST
COLOURS IN THE STEEL and THE BELLY OF THE BOW, the first two volumes of the Fencer Trilogy, introduced a remarkable new voice in fantasy fiction. THE PROOF HOUSE is the final volume in K.J. Parker's brilliant Fencer Trilogy.
After years spent in the saps under the defences of the apparently impregnable city of Ap' Iscatoy, Bardas Loredan, sometime fencer-at-law and the betrayed defender of the famed Triple City, is suddenly a hero of the Empire. His reward is a boring administrative job in a backwater, watching armour tested to destruction in the Proof House. But the fall of Ap' Iscatoy has opened up unexpected possibilities for the expansion of the Empire into the land of the Plains people, and Bardas Loredan is the one man Temrai the Great, King of the Plains tribes, fears the most...
The powerful and gripping final volume in The Fencer Trilogy, now reissued with a stunning new cover style.
Books by K.J. Parker:
Fencer Trilogy
The Colours in the Steel
The Belly of the Bow
The Proof HouseScavenger Trilogy
Shadow
Pattern
MemoryEngineer Trilogy
Devices and Desires
Evil for Evil
The EscapementSaloninus
Blue and Gold
The Devil You KnowTwo of Swords
The Two of Swords: Part 1
The Two of Swords: Part 2
The Two of Swords: Part 3Novels
The Company
The Folding Knife
The Hammer
Sharps
Savages
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
My Beautiful Life
- ISBN10 1857239660
- ISBN13 9781857239669
- Publish Date 23 March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Orbit
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 512
- Language English