The Trouble with Peace
Chapters - Joe Abercrombie
Part 4
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Chapter 1: The World's Wrongs
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Chapter 2: A Long Way from Adua
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Chapter 3: A Sea of Trouble
Savine's pregnancy and her continuing business interests collide with the political situation. Her relationship with Orso is developed here in a way that complicates both their arcs considerably.
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Chapter 4: A Routine
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Chapter 5: The Art of Compromise
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Chapter 6: Some Things Never Heal
Leo's political ambitions are being shaped by people with more patience and more ruthlessness than him. The chapter tracks the difference between what Leo thinks he is doing and what he is actually being set up to do.
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Chapter 7: With the Wind
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Chapter 8: Visions
Rikke returns to the North with the Long Eye and an increasingly impossible position between the factions competing to control her. Her chapters in this book are about the cost of seeing what others cannot.
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Chapter 9: Man of the People
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Chapter 10: Safe Hands
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Chapter 11: An Ambush
Broad is drawn back into violence in a way he knew was coming and could not prevent. His self-knowledge is one of the series' recurring ironies: people who understand exactly what they are doing wrong and do it anyway.
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Chapter 12: Gentle Temperaments
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Chapter 13: Minister of Whispers
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Chapter 14: Late
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Chapter 15: An Infinite Supply
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Chapter 16: The Demon That Breaks All Chains
The conspiracy around Leo becomes visible in outline. Savine begins to understand the shape of what is being planned and faces a choice about which side of it she intends to be on.
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Chapter 17: The King's Justice
Orso is increasingly isolated within his own court. The chapter tracks the quiet mechanisms by which power removes itself from people who cannot be relied upon to use it in the approved ways.
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Chapter 18: The Choice
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