apprentice torturer

[JRmaggedon]

started a book several years ago,may have been the start of a series, the main character is an apprentice torturer who asigned as a circut exicutioner.is given a two-handed sword one edge for males and the other for females.lost book durring move did not get to finish.

 

[RJM Corbet]

The Torturer's Apprentice by John Biguenet?

HarperCollins Publishers

 

[trickyricky]

I think maybe The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe.

Though Severian expects to be tortured and executed, instead the head of the guild is uncharacteristically forgiving and dispatches Severian to Thrax, a distant city which has need of an executioner. Master Palaemon gives Severian a letter of introduction to the archon of the city and Terminus Est, a magnificent executioner's sd.

 

[clovis-man]

Gene Wolfe would be my guess also.

 

[Ian Whates]

Yup, this sounds like Gene Wolfe's Severian to me.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Yes, it's the greatest Sf ever written.

 

[nerd literature]

Yeah I was going to mention Gene Wolfe. Oh well

 

[JRmaggedon]

Gene Wolfe thats it thank you all so much .