Once they were a band of mercenaries who shook the pillars of the world through their cunning, their closely-guarded alchemical brews and stone cold steel. Whoever met their price won.

Now, their glory days behind them and their genius leader in hiding, the warriors known as 'the Twenty' are being hunted down and eliminated one by one.

A lifetime of enemies has its own price.

Snakewood's narrative voices are the real strength here . . . contemporary and as grimdark as it comes