So the US need a good deal more lead time, basically. The physical distribution also takes a fair bit longer in the US, the distances are far greater and the supply chain more complicated, so it takes a lot longer to get books from printer to bookshop stock rooms ready for them to go on the shelves everywhere at once. They then check their setting over, there's some number crunching involved in getting the files ready for the printer, apparently. Not totally sure why they choose to do this - their own house style, differences in paper stock and hence page count, slightly different traditions in the text size and spacing. But then they set them again their own way. The US take the finished, typeset files from the UK publisher. This novel also sees the return of one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.
RED COUNTRY takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing.
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