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The Wisdom of Crowds

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The New York Times bestselling finale to the Age of Madness trilogyfinds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.

Chaos. Fury. Destruction.
The Great Change is upon us . . .
Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.
With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies . . . while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance.
The banks have fallen, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and in the darkness behind the scenes, the threads of the Weaver's ruthless plan are slowly being drawn together . . .
"No one writes with the seismic scope or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie." —Pierce Brown
For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out:
The Age of Madness
A Little Hatred
The Trouble With Peace
The Wisdom of Crowds
The First Law Trilogy
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
Best Served Cold

The Heroes
Red Country
The Shattered Sea Trilogy
Half a King
Half a World
Half a War
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 26, 2021
      Abercrombie’s conclusion to his bestselling grimdark Age of Madness trilogy (following The Trouble With Peace) will satisfy his many fans, especially those who don’t need to rely on the five-page cast list at the back to feel sufficiently oriented. Disreputable crown prince turned reluctant king Orso the First has assumed the throne of the Union following an unexpected military triumph. Predictably, he wears the crown uneasily: his reign is challenged by a rebel group calling themselves the Breakers, who are amassing a People’s Army to march on Orso’s stronghold. The crown’s response is harsh, and the book’s strongest scenes depict the consequences of Orso’s acquiescence to his advisers’ decision to toss captured rebels off a tower to their deaths. (“The trial can be on the way down. The ground can give the verdict.”) The bloodshed and political turmoil are reminiscent of the horrors of the French Reign of Terror, mixed with diverting humor that comes partially courtesy of Orso’s narcissistic tendencies. Less successful are some of the other, more forced real-world allusions, including a draft constitution that begins, “We consider these facts to be self-evident.” Nonetheless, with its thoughtful exploration of differing approaches to governance and rich, action-packed plot, this epic fantasy makes a fitting series close. Agent: Robert Kirby, United Agents.

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      September 1, 2021
      In the beginning of Abercrombie's pitch-black conclusion to his Age of Madness trilogy (after The Trouble with Peace, 2020), the People's Army has stormed Adua, the seat of King Orso's power, and freedom from tyranny is nigh. Or is it? Certainly Abercrombie offers no surety as the common people's revolution descends into the violence, greed, injustice, and hypocrisy that characterized its prior government. While Orso offers incisive, acerbic commentary from prison, those leading the Great Change legitimize mob justice, sham trials, barbaric executions, and erratic laws. Savine and Leo, from traitors to heroes again, strategize to avoid the noose and perhaps prosper in this volatile political environment, while in the North, Rikkie opposes Black Calder for final control. In the books' culminating scenes, a series of bitter, heartbreaking betrayals reveals the long-reaching machinations of the Weaver and, on a grander scale, the First of the Magi. Abercrombie's fans will be satisfied with this morally complex conclusion in which even the victorious few know that, in the end, "[e]very victory turns out to be just another defeat."

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