The exciting first tie-in novel for the acclaimed Numenera roleplaying game, for all fans of inventive science-fantasy - accompanies the worldwide launch of the PC game Torment: Tides of Numenera. Poison never lies. Tali was once one of the twelve martyrs of the forgotten compass, a prisoner of the unhuman creatures known only as the vordcha. She barely escaped that life with her body and soul intact. Now she has a new life as a poison eater in the city of Enthait. Here she is hailed as one of the city's protectors. No one knows her history. No one has asked about her past. She's been here long enough that Enthait is her home now, these are her people. She loves them and they her. But in the Ninth World, the past is a living, breathing thing. And when it hunts you down, you can run. You can fight. Or you can die. • Publishing alongside the launch of the new PC game Torment: Tides of Numenera in January 2017. • An extraordinary far-future setting where technology is so advanced it feels like magic. • Angry Robot's first venture into tie-in fiction, in partnership with the Numenera RPG, lauded by Monte Cook Games after one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns ever.