The Shadow of the Torturer

Extract: I struggled in my selection of a Wolfe book for the Grand Master challenge. I didn't want to start another series that I wouldn't be completing for a while, but the title intrigued me. Torturers and executioners are usually just nameless cameos in books and movies, not main characters. And I remembered the book and its sequels from the pre-B&N mall bookstores, which must mean something. I got the book from the library, read it quickly, and immediately put the rest of the series on my TBR pile. This isn't your average fantasy novel. To quote Roger Zelazny's back cover quote, it's "…a portrait of a young man as a torturer"…