<DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In war everyone loses.&nbsp; This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world&#8230;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. <BR><BR>And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies.&nbsp; The warlike Barghast, thwarted in their vengeance against the Tiste Edur, seek new enemies beyond the border and Onos Toolan, once immortal T&#8217;lan Imass now mortal commander of the White Face clan, faces insurrection.&nbsp; To the south, the Perish Grey Helms parlay passage through the treacherous kingdom of Bolkando.&nbsp; Their intention is to rendezvous with the Bonehunters but their vow of allegiance to the Malazans will be sorely tested.&nbsp; And ancient enclaves of an Elder Race are in search of salvation&#8212;not among their own kind, but among humans&#8212;as an old enemy draws ever closer to the last surviving bastion of the K&#8217;Chain Che&#8217;Malle.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So this last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption.&nbsp; But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them?&nbsp; And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world?&nbsp; Destines are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no one&#8217;s side.&nbsp; For the Deck of Dragons has been read, unleashing a dread power that none can comprehend&#8230;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of &#8216;The Malazan Book of the Fallen&#8217; has begun&#8230;</P></DIV></DIV>