108 Outlaws: Water Margin,Book Six: The Price of Blood

A modern translation of China's classic gangster epic — no more unreadable names, no more cryptic slang, no more mysticism. Just pure, immersive storytelling.Book Six: The Price of Blood sends the outlaws to fight their final war—against an army of the desperate. Farmers and refugees, driven from their homes by famine and injustice, the same kind that once drove the outlaws themselves. They are not soldiers. They are people who had nowhere else to go. The battles are brutal. The cost is absolute. And when the last rebel banner falls, the outlaws stand victorious. They have done what was asked of them. They have won. But as they march through the burned-out towns and look at the faces of the people they were sent to crush—people who fought for the same things the outlaws once fought for—the question creeps in like a cold wind. This victory. This empire. This life. Was any of it ever worth it? Read more