Liktorův meč – Wolfe Gene (2023)

A huge intricate dungeon carved into the rock, where hundreds or thousands of prisoners serve their sentences without daylight – such is Vinkula of the city of Traxu, overseen by the torturer apprentice Severian. This is a second chance for him to humbly apply the knowledge and skills that the guild masters instilled in him from a young age. ***** However, another fateful twist does not take long to arrive, and Severian once again becomes an outlaw facing a long line of monsters: a fiery specter stalking his trail, a beast that absorbs not only the flesh of its victims but also their personality, a two-headed tyrant, and old acquaintances he mistakenly considered harmless and pitiable. And every step brings him closer to the front line in the north... ***** In the third part of the tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, the journey full of danger and temptation continues, where Severian learns to better understand the world and himself, gradually revealing the outlines of the great task that lies before him and towards which his journey through the mountains and jungles of the dying world is directed.