{"product_id":"9781529422795","title":"The Malevolent Seven : Terry Pratchett meets Deadpool in this darkly funny fantasy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  de Castell, Sebastien \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 January 2024 by Quercus Publishing (Jo Fletcher Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 27 | 278g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy - but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone's setting the seven up for a fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he's wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn't protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat's a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would instantly show every other mage where this gets his magic? Wouldn't want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYep. Behold the mighty wizard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow open your eyes and let me show you what a real war mage looks like . . . but be warned: you're probably not going to like it, because we're violent, angry, dangerously broken people who sell our skills to the highest bidder and be damned to any moral or ethical considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least, until such irritating concepts as friendship and the end of the world get in  the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title - until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent.  Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48367232483652,"sku":"9781529422795","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/b841a1f7a581971126e1abc34bf21b04.png?v=1752764774","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.pro\/products\/9781529422795","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}