Series
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie · 1 novel · 2025
Joe Abercrombie's The Devils (2025) opens a new grimdark fantasy series set in an alternate medieval Europe besieged by plague, famine, and monsters, following Brother Diaz as he's tasked by the Church with managing a squad of imprisoned monstrosities - a vampire, a werewolf, a cursed knight, a pirate, and others - for a mission nobody sane would volunteer for. Their job is to escort a former thief posing as a claimant to the throne of Troy safely to her coronation, through a landscape falling apart around them. It's Abercrombie's first work outside his First Law universe in a decade, pairing his usual morally compromised cast with a monster-squad premise.
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- 2020s1
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