bA remarkably assured fantasy debut that mixes of the inventiveness of China Mi ville with the fast paced heroics of David Gemmell.--Anthony Ryan, iNew York Timesi bestselling author of iThe Legion of Flamei pSet on a postapocalyptic frontier, iBlackwingi is a gritty fantasy debut about a man's desperate battle to survive his own dark destiny...bbr bbrbiHope, reason, humanity the Misery breaks them all.i p Under its cracked and wailing sky, the Misery is a vast and blighted expanse, the arcane remnant of a devastating war with the immortals known as the Deep Kings. The war ended nearly a century ago, and the enemy is kept at bay only by the existence of the Engine, a terrible weapon that protects the Misery's border. Across the corrupted no-man's-land teeming with twisted magic and malevolent wraiths, the Deep Kings and their armies bide their time. Watching. Waiting. p Bounty hunter Ryhalt Galharrow has breathed Misery dust for twenty bitter years. When he's ordered to locate a masked