The thin executioner /
Darren Shan.
- 1st ed.
- London, Eng. : HarperCollins, c2010.
- 409 p. : map ; 25 cm.
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.
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Voyages and travels--Fiction. Executions and executioners--Fiction. Slavery--Fiction. Conduct of life--Fiction.