“An impressive writer” – Mark Lawrence, Gemmell Award Winner and international bestselling author
“I freaking bloody loved the Blood Scouts” – Julia Sarene, The Fantasy Hive
“A unique, compelling story with plenty of action and vivid characters.” – Patrick Samphire, author of Shadow of a Dead God
Get ready for the second entry in the thrilling Blood Scouts saga from Phil Williams: Drown Deep revisits a diverse dark fantasy world crawling with monsters, plagued by war, and on the precipice of big changes.
OUT 22.10.24
Where armies won’t go, the Blood Scouts must…
Wild Wish has reluctantly left the front line behind. No more fighting. No more friends. But she’s about to get an invitation to a fight no one else dares touch.
There’s trouble in the Saints Mire, a strictly neutral land with deep religious history. Here, the secrets of the Prophets are preserved by the foreboding Ten Priories – isolated for centuries, steeped in myth, and now under attack.
A rogue Drail army of veterans, criminals and goblins has invaded, and a reckless company of Comity partisans are itching to stop them. The top brass want nothing to do with it, so it’s up to Wild Wish and her new band of ragged misfits to keep things from escalating.
She must brave the heart of a nightmare land harbouring great, hidden power – and even greater hidden threats. Secrets millennia in the making may be exposed – with the potential to change the very shape of the war.
But if Wish can find an opportunity to rebuild The Blood Scouts, maybe it’ll be worth it?
Drown Deep is a breakneck return to the Rocc and its epic global war: get ready for more heart-pumping action and enthralling characters from this unforgettably unsettling world.