Scavenger Trilogy: Memory - K.J. Parker

The third book in Parker's bleak, mordantly funny Scavenger trilogy gets off to the usual start; a harum-scarum battle in wet, muddy, heavily forested country, with no clear lines, no significant issues, little point or purpose and absolutely no 'command or control' in evidence. Victory isn't a matter of clever tactics, valour or a just cause, its all about blind luck, other peoples' stupidity and a fortuitously placed and very sticky bog. Parker's... well, 'hero' is just the wrong word, isn't it? Let's stick with 'protagonist.' Parker's progagonist, Poldarn, a man whose memory was lost two books ago, and who has managed only to reclaim the nasty bits of his ...