Un nouvel auteur à surveiller, Jeff Salyards. Voici ce qu'il dit de son roman, Scourge of the betrayer à paraître en mai aux USA :
The premise of Scourge of the Betrayer is fairly simple: a young chronicler named Arkamondos is bored archiving the mundane histories of middling merchants, and agrees to join a foreign military band to record their exploits. Nothing wildly inventive on the face of it-we’re not talking New Crobuzon territory here, so if that is your bag (Bas-Lag?), then you might want to keep shopping.But the thing that provides for some fun twists and misdirection is that Arkamondos is also the narrator. And he has no flipping clue what he’s gotten himself into. While he knows this group of Syldoon soldiers has a nasty reputation, he has no idea what their agenda is. And as it turns out, they not only have one, but it involves subterfuge, political intrigue, blackmail, and plenty of mayhem and murder.Arkamondos does double duty here-sure, he’s his own character, but he also essentially functions as the proxy or surrogate for the reader. As Arki slowly begins to get a handle on what’s actually happening, the reader does as well. And just when Arki (and the reader) feels like he understands and knows what to expect, the ground shifts underneath his feet.
Bref ça devrait intéresser les fans de Cook et de la Compagnie Noire à vue de nez.