TAIDAN: Book 4 of The Fifth Place

They rode through long gulches and canyons the colour of old sunsets, dry and bare but for tufts of grass poking out from the cliffs. Jay had his hand close to his gun, wary of attack, but it stayed quiet. Their horses’ hooves echoed back to them.

He had a flash of memory, something from years ago. He was racing through here – Crookteeth Canyon – bandits on his tail. No, no – he was the bandit, driving stolen horses before him, shooting wildly behind and they at him, the shots ricocheting off the rocks like shrieking thunder.

He put his hand on the butt of his gun, trying to see everything through his good eye, but the canyon stayed quiet – they were the only things living. The time before would not come again.

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‘I don’t want to be a good f**kin human being. I want to survive.’

 

After the perilous events of VOLSYNG, a badly wounded Jay Wulf leads his friends Alexia Slade and Vrowd Volsyng back to the Westlands. To recover – and to find his father and hold him to account for Jay’s abusive childhood.

Tormented by hallucinations, anger and trauma, and trying to get back the strength he’s lost, Jay and his allies must brave the volcanic, desolate lands of Rath, for a reunion Jay is dreading as much as he is needing…

Yet unbeknownst to our antiheroes, they have someone else on their trail. A prodigiously skilled bounty hunter known only as the Ghost, he will be the most lethal opponent they have ever faced, and has no qualms about killing everyone in sight to get to them – in fact, he takes pleasure in it . . .

This is a world that one can get lost in.

F.J. Blair, author of the Bulletproof Witch series

Driven back to their favourite watering hole once more, a reckoning is coming forth. Follow the band down the dusty trail where the strays wander... You come this far and you'll be glad you did.

Miguel, Goodreads review

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