"Abercrombie writes fantasy like no one else: Red Country is a marvellous follow-up to his highly praised The Heroes."
Eric Brown, for The Guardian

The Third Stand-Alone Novel in the World of The First Law
“Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad – and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the general good.” – Emerson Hough
They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following.
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb’s buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.
Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer, Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust…