The Poison Trade – Joe Abercrombie
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“The ruddy cheeks had lost much of their glow. ‘There must be some mistake.’ ‘Oh no, I assure you.’ Glokta slid the papers of confession from the inside pocket of his coat. ‘You are mentioned often in the confessions of senior Mercers, you see? Very often.’ And he held the crackling pages out so they both could see them. ‘Here you are referred to as – and not my choice of words, you understand – an ‘‘accomplice’’. Here as the ‘‘prime beneficiary’’ of a most unsavoury smuggling operation. And here, you will note – and I almost blush to mention it – your name and the word ‘‘treason’’ appear in close proximity.’”
4 out of 5
