The God Is Not Willing

Twelve years after the events of The Crippled God, the world has changed — but violence has not. On the Silver Lake frontier, a Malazan garrison holds a tenuous peace as the Teblor tribes, descendants of Karsa Orlong's people, mobilize under the banner of a new god.

A squad of Malazan soldiers — including the disreputable Stillwater, the weary Sergeant Drillbent, and the improbable survivor Benger — must navigate a war that arrives before anyone is ready for it.

Simultaneously, a Dal Honese witch, a disgraced Napan captain, and the last survivors of a doomed trading post find themselves caught between the Teblor advance and a Malazan military machine that cannot decide whether it wants to win or simply endure.

The first novel in the Tales of Witness series returns to the Malazan world with a new generation of soldiers, a new crisis, and the same unflinching examination of the cost of empire.