The Boy Who Wept Blood

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by Den Patrick


  Thanks to Simon Spanton, Gillian Redfearn, Sophie Calder, Charlie Panayiotou and all at Gollancz for their hard work and friendliness.

  Leopard-print kudos to my agent Juliet Mushens and thanks to Sarah Manning and the Agency Group.

  I’ve crossed paths with many authors in the last year, inspirations, imbibers of intoxicants, and fine folk: John Hornor Jacobs, Edward Cox, James Oswald, Joe Abercrombie, Rebecca Levene, Daniel Polansky, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, Jon Wallace, and, as ever, Tom Pollock and Jen Williams.

  Many thanks to Goldsboro Books for making me feel so welcome, Forbidden Planet Southampton, and the many Waterstone’s book sellers who chose The Boy with the Porcelain Blade as a recommended read.

  Also by Den Patrick from Gollancz:

  The Naer Evain Chronicles

  Orcs War-Fighting Manual

  Elves War-Fighting Manual

  Dwarves War-Fighting Manual

  The Erebus Sequence

  The Boy with the Porcelain Blade

  A Gollancz eBook

  Copyright © Den Patrick 2015

  All rights reserved.

  The right of Den Patrick to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  First published in Great Britain in 2015 by

  Gollancz

  The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

  Orion House

  5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane

  London, WC2H 9EA

  An Hachette UK Company

  This eBook first published in 2015 by Gollancz.

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978 1 473 20003 6

  All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

  www.orionbooks.co.uk

  www.gollancz.co.uk

  Table of Contents

  Dedication

  Title Page

  Epigraph

  Great and Minor Houses of Landfall

  Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Chapter Forty-Seven

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Chapter Fifty

  Chapter Fifty-One

  Chapter Fifty-Two

  Chapter Fifty-Three

  Chapter Fifty-Four

  Chapter Fifty-Five

  Chapter Fifty-Six

  Chapter Fifty-Seven

  Chapter Fifty-Eight

  Chapter Fifty-Nine

  Coda

  Acknowledgements

  Also by Den Patrick from Gollancz

  Copyright

 

 

 


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