Best Served Cold
Chapters - Joe Abercrombie
Part: I – Talins
Monza Murcatto is thrown from a window and left for dead by the man she served. She survives through luck and spite. The list of seven names she will kill is assembled before she is fully healed.
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Chapter 2: Land of Opportunity
Monza recruits Caul Shivers, a Northman trying to become a better man, as her first companion. His reasons for joining her and his reasons for wanting to be different are both genuine, and both about to be tested.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto·On page: Caul Shivers, Friendly
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Chapter 3: The Bone-Thief
Morveer, a poisoner of immense professional pride and no discernible ethics, is introduced through a job that establishes both his competence and his complete indifference to the people he kills.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto
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Chapter 6: Bloody Instructions
The first assassination. Monza's revenge begins and immediately demonstrates that killing people who are expecting to be killed is considerably harder than killing people who are not.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto
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Part: II – Westport
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Chapter 8: Science and Magic
In Westport, Monza recruits Friendly, a former convict obsessed with counting, and Cosca, a disgraced mercenary captain with a drinking problem and a complicated history with Monza herself.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto
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Part: III – Sipani
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Chapter 16: The Life of the Drinker
Morveer's account of the Sipani operation reveals the gap between his self-image as a professional and the reality of what the job actually requires. He is not a reliable narrator of his own competence.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto
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Chapter 17: Left Out
Shivers begins to change. The man who came south to be better is finding that the company he keeps and the work he is being asked to do push consistently in the other direction.
POV: Monzcarro Murcatto
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