The Saga of the Fire-Swallowers (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

The Barbarian Nurseries

A month earlier Brandon had finished the last volume in a four-book series of novels, The Saga of the Fire-Swallowers, and as he sat in the train with his nose pressed to the glass, the violent and disturbing denouement of that epic narrative seemed the only plausible explanation for the existence of this village of suffering passing below him.