The Blade Itself
Chapters - Joe Abercrombie
Part 1
Prologue: The End
POV: Logen Ninefingers
Chapter 1: The Survivors
POV: Logen Ninefingers
Chapter 2: Questions
Sand dan Glokta conducts an Inquisition interview. His running internal monologue establishes him immediately: a man who does terrible things with clear eyes and dry wit, fully aware of the irony.
Chapter 3: No Choice at All
Jezal dan Luthar prepares for the Contest, doing as little actual work as possible. His vanity and his casual entitlement are established without a single moment of self-awareness on his part.
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 4: Playing With Knives
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 5: Teeth and Fingers
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 6: The Wide and Barren North
Logen encounters the Dogman and other surviving members of his old crew. The reunion is wary on all sides - these are men who have seen too much of each other to be sentimental about it.
POV: Logen Ninefingers
Chapter 7: Fencing Practice
Jezal trains with Captain Collem West, who is considerably better at fencing than his pupil finds comfortable. The dynamic between them says something about what merit looks like when class is in the way.
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 8: The Morning Ritual
POV: Jezal dan Luthar
Chapter 9: First of the Magi
Bayaz, First of the Magi, appears at the Agriont and demands an audience with the king. His arrival is treated as an embarrassment by everyone except the reader, who suspects he is exactly who he says he is.
POV: Logen Ninefingers·On page: Bayaz
Chapter 10: The Good Man
POV: Jezal dan Luthar
Chapter 11: On the List
Glokta investigates financial corruption in the Mercers guild, a case that seems routine until it becomes something considerably more dangerous.
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 12: An Offer and a Gift
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 13: The King of the Northmen
POV: Logen Ninefingers·On page: Ferro Maljinn
Chapter 14: A Road Between Two Dentists
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 15: Flatheads
POV: Logen Ninefingers
Chapter 16: The Course of True Love
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 17: How Dogs are Trained
POV: Sand dan Glokta
Chapter 18: Tea and Vengeance
POV: Logen Ninefingers