Location from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
The Union's southern outpost — a fortified city on the Gurkish border where Glokta was sent to die and instead proved that a crippled torturer with nothing to lose is the most dangerous defender imaginable.
Dagoska is a siege story — the Union's southern outpost surrounded by Gurkish armies, its defenders outnumbered and its politicians backstabbing each other while the walls crumble. Glokta was sent here as a death sentence, and he responded by being the most ruthlessly effective defender the city had ever seen. The city fell eventually — overwhelmed by numbers and betrayed from within. But Glokta escaped, because Glokta always escapes, and the lessons he learned about power, loyalty, and pragmatism shaped his rise to Arch Lector.
A walled port city on a peninsula, surrounded by Gurkish forces. The walls are thick, the garrison is thin, and the political situation inside is as dangerous as the siege outside. Cramped, hot, and full of people who know they're probably going to die.
Also known as: Dagoska