The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

Book 0.50 of The Witcher

Language: English

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: Jan 30, 1993

Description:

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarries are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety. As guardian of the innocent, Geralt meets incestuous kings with undead daughters, vengeful djinns, shrieking harpies, lovelorn vampires and despondent ghouls. Many are pernicious, some are merely, and none are quite as they appear.