Steven Erikson - Toll the Hounds

A lot of what's set up in the seven books preceding this one is revisited and, seemingly, brought to fruition in Toll the Hounds, with Dragnipur, the Tiste Andii (and particularly Anomander Rake) and the increasingly fated city of Darujhistan at its heart, all related in Kruppe's distinctive voice. I've said it before, but it bears saying again - Erikson really is masterful...over the course of this series to date, he's created something which stands apart from anything else ever written in this vein.