Midnight Tides - A Tale of the Malazan Book of the FallenAfter decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth, There is peace but it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long prophesized renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslaved all its less civilized neighbors with rapacious