The Water Outlaws

S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws is a novel that follows Lin Chong, an expert arms instructor, as she is recruited by the Liangshan Bandits, a group of bandits who believe in justice and fight like tigers to bring down an empire.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 August 2023
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd.

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are a band of ruthless bandits, exhibiting unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and uncontrollable gender, ready to make history or tear it apart. In the world of the Jianghu, breaking the law becomes a means to assert one's dominance. Lin Chong, an expert arms instructor, trains the Emperor's soldiers in various weapons, including swords, truncheons, battle axes, spears, lances, and crossbows. Unlike her bolder friends who challenge the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, Lin Chong believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. However, her carefully-built life is abruptly ripped away when a powerful man with a vendetta destroys it. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan.

The Liangshan Bandits, mountain outlaws on the margins of society, proclaim a belief in justice for women, the downtrodden, and progressive thinkers, a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They are also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats. Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.

Dimension: 235 x 158 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781837861415