The Sword of the Lictor

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In the third volume of The Book of the New Sun, Severian the torturer arrives at the mountain city of Thrax to take up his post as lictor, but his compassion once again compels him to release a condemned prisoner. Fleeing into the wilderness with his young charge, he encounters strange beings and ancient mysteries that draw him ever closer to his ultimate destiny on the dying Urth.

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