Title: Malazan Book of the Fallen #5 – Midnight Tides
Author(s): Steven Erikson
Release year: 2004
Publisher: Bantam Books
Why in Database: The tortoise only appears in this book (from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series) in one fragment, used as comparison:
Shadow wraiths had gathered round his soul, for soul was all he was, motionless and vulnerable, seeing without eyes, feeling without flesh as the vague, bestial things closed in, plucking at him, circling like dogs around a turtle.
