The Kindly Ones

Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies - The Kindly Ones - against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year one hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three emerge. The Academy''s halls run with blood. The few who survive its decade-long nightmare have been forged on the sands of the Wound Garden. They have learned ancient secrets amid the necrotic fumes of the Bone Garden. They leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws. Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Kindnesses. But Rue ... she sold herself. And now, a lifetime later, a long and bloody lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman''s doorstep. That was a mistake.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of whom is severely disabled. His day job is as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. Between work and caring for his disabled child, Mark spends his time writing, playing computer games, tending an allotment, brewing beer, and avoiding DIY.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Lawrence
• Verlag: Harper Voyager
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 26.03.2026
• EAN: 9780008696115
• ISBN: 978-0-00-869611-5
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Serien: The Kindly Ones; The Academy of Kindness
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Fantasy, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Historical fantasy, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Adventure / action fiction, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction, Epic fantasy / high fantasy