Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exhuberant world of the Tyrant Philosophers series (City of Last Chances; House of Open Wounds). How long can you stay a good person if you're working for the bad guys? A diplomat for a colonial regime falls in love with the nation she's supposed to be softening up.

The second book in this epic fantasy trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Maniye has been named Champion of her people – but there are doubts within her clan, even as war looms on the horizon.

Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning fantasy novel City of Last Chances

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the fiel...

The second book in this gripping fantasy series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Shadows of the Apt series.