Jakannes: The Man Who Would Not Die

"JAKANNES"A bleak tale of dogged desperation… the hero's journey in reverse…~A novel in the tradition of Blood Meridian’s bleak atmosphere, the world-building of Malazan Book of the Fallen and other fantasy epics, and other character-centred novels such as The Shadow of the Torturer ~Jakannes has nothing left but his crossbow, hunting knives and the last of his belongings, saddled to his trusty old mule. This is all he needs to prove the rumours are real. Nobody believes in the tales, anymore, of immortality awaiting those who would seek it in the uncharted antipodes of the continent, far to the south where the Monolithian Mountains lay unexplored. But Jakannes refuses to believe in doubt. Not after losing all he ever loved. With nothing left to tie him to his previous life, or to those who had once been in it, he embarks on a suicide mission, a long-gamble, to become the first man in history to live forever. Ever-gathering snow, battering winds, stretching for miles and miles… Hostile barbarians loitering beyond the borders of civilization… A sinister half-rat half-man who harbours strange delusions and an obsession for stealing people's eyes insists on following him like a smell that won’t go away. Fate itself seems opposed to Jakannes’ quest.He is not trained in the magic of Scapecraft. He will have to rely on his tools, his wits, and his own deranged sense of persistence.He will get what he wants, or die trying.

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