Monument
Ace, April 2004, 14.00, 400 pp.
ISBN 0441011357
He is a slothful thief who does not care that he is homeless, smells like a pig and has a beer belly so huge that it bounces. Ballas has no friends and kills without mercy. In a tavern he steals the purse of a store mason but is caught and beaten almost to death. A priest takes him into his home and when he is well asks him to perform an errand at the museum.
Ballas spots an artifact consistin...
