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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and
not intended by the author.

Original text copyright © Andrzej Sapkowski 1994
English translation copyright © Danusia Stok 2008
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced,
distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.

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Originally published in hardcover by Gollancz in the UK, 2008
First eBook Edition: May 2009
ISBN: 978-0-316-07371-4
Contents
Copyright Page
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
Extras
Meet the Author
THE LAST WISH
“I’d be proud,” she said quietly, lowering her head. “I’d be proud and happy to fight at your side.”
“I believe that. But I’m not gallant enough. Nor valiant enough. I’m not suited to be a soldier or a hero. And having an acute
fear of pain, mutilation and death is not the only reason. You can’t stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give
him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no such motivation. I can’t have. I’m a witcher: an artificially created
mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I’ll defend
Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin—which does not seem likely to me—I’ll carry on killing monsters
in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world.
And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”… “But I don’t want to die in a war, because they’re not my wars.”

Praise for Andrzej Sapkowski:
“Sapkowski has a phenomenal gift for narrative, for inventing sensational events, creating a suggestive mood, and building
up the suspense. Along with a dazzling, slightly cynical sense of humor.”

—Jacek Sieradzki, Polityka
“The character interplay is complex, unsentimental and anchored in brutal shared history. All bodes well for twisty plotti ............

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