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Folly of the World, The

By: Orbit Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Orbit Books)

MSRP old price: $15.99


Product Info

Title
Folly of the World, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Jesse Bullington
Publish Year
2012
Pages
502
Dimensions
5.5x8x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147788506
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant Cods waged a literal class war but weeks before, there is now only a nigh-endless expanse of grey water, a desolate inland sea with moldering church spires jutting up like sunken tombstones. For a land already beleaguered by generations of civil war, a worse disaster could scarce be imagined.

Yet even disaster can be profitable, for the right sort of individual, and into this flooded realm sail three conspirators: a deranged thug at the edge of madness, a ruthless conman on the cusp of fortune, and a half-feral girl balanced between them.