Toll Of Hounds is the eighth book in the extremely popular Malazan Book Of The Fallen series. It is summer in the city of Darujhistan and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and the hunters become the hunted. This is a thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic.