The Limping Man

The Limping Man, the third book of the Salt Trilogy, is a compelling fantasy adventure from one of New Zealand's finest writers. It was shortlisted in the LIANZA and the NZ Post Young Adult Awards, 2011.





The Limping Man is small, wizened and cruel, but his subjects worship him, chanting as he arrives for the burning of the witches. He holds all who come near him in his psychic web, making them bow down and serve his will. And he is raising an army to destroy the humans and Dwellers.





Hana escapes the Limping Man's henchmen as they come to take her mother. When she meets Ben, son of Lo, they set out on a dangerous quest to rid the world of the evil Limping Man. But first they must discover the secret of his power.





The Limping Man completes the trilogy that began with Salt and Gool.


Maurice Gee was one of New Zealand’s finest writers. He wrote more than forty books for adults and young adults and won several literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children’s Book of the Year Award. His fifth novel Plumb, published in 1978, won the UK’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Maurice Gee’s young-adult novels include The Fat Man, Orchard Street, Hostel Girl, Under the Mountain, The O Trilogy and The Salt Trilogy. He died in 2025.