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The Healthy Dead
a Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella by Steven Erikson
Published in: July 2004
ISBN: 1902880455 / 1902880447
SOLD OUT in Hardcover / 1st & 2nd print Paperback
Edition: 300 / 500 / 500
Introduction: Paul Kearney
Cover Art: Edward Miller
Synopsis / Contents:
Things are going all too well in the city of Quaint. So well, in fact, that something has to be done. The zeal for goodness can be catastrophic, and no-one knows this better than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, two stalwart champions of all things bad.
For the innumerable citizens of Quaint, driven to neurotic distraction and overwhelmed with good living, desperation breeds nefarious bed-mates, and before long the two homicidal necromancers -- and their beleagured and substance-addled manservant, Emancipor Reese -- find themselves ensnared in a scheme to bring goodness into disrepute, if not utter ruination.
To Reese's bemusement, laudable motivations are, in a bizarre twist, uncharacteristically relevant to Master Bauchelain, although, of course, the payment of a chest filled with gold helps.
Even so, sometimes, it turns out, one must bring down civilisation... in the name of civilisation.
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