The Fog of War: Fire and Ash - Softcover

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Two hundred people. One road. One night to get them across.

Kane is a sergeant at the worn-out end of a long war, and he has had enough of being brave. All he wants is to walk two hundred farmers, families with children, the old, the sick, down a narrow stone causeway to safety, and then lay down his sword for good.

But the enemy is close behind, burning the country in cold, methodical order, and the fog that rises off the fens at dusk is no ordinary weather. It remembers every voice it has ever heard. And it has begun, very softly, to repeat the names of the dead.

When a dying woman calls Kane the hero of an old prophecy, the frightened people start to believe her. They need him to be their savior. Kane knows exactly what heroes cost, and who pays for them. He only wants to get these people home.

At his side: a thief who owes him nothing and stays anyway, and a town that sings its dead to sleep.

Then the fog says his name.

The Fog of War is a warm, harrowing epic about the ones who stay behind when everyone else runs, and the unbearable weight of the people you cannot save. A standalone novel for readers of Guy Gavriel Kay, R.F. Kuang, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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