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Pretenders to the Throne of God

By (author) Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic â€“ and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and â€˜perfectionâ€™ to it. As the Palleseenâ€™s campaign to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world rages on, Eres Ffenegh â€“ â€œthe City on the Back of a Crabâ€ â€“ is the next state slated for conquest. But its citizens wonâ€™t give up sovereignty easily. The siege has dragged into winter and the defenders â€“ both locals and Pal renegades â€“ hold an uneasy alliance against the enemy at the gates, while the Pal army is looking over its shoulder for the next self-destructive dictate of their government back home. Within the city, Devil Jack, a good man apprenticed to the notorious conjurer known as the Widow, is driven to bargaining with hell to get back what heâ€™s lost. Meanwhile Kiffel ea Leachan is the cityâ€™s champion, a child of privilege whoâ€™s just lost everything to the invaders. Both must try to survive the siege and make their own destinies in a world thatâ€™s cut them loose. Outside the city, Pal reinforcements have arrived to take the city, but itâ€™s the sort of help that might just damn them all... THE TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS 1. City of Last Chances: portrait of Ilmar, a city under Palleseen occupation 2. House of Open Wounds: portrait of the Palleseen war machine at work. 3. Days of Shattered Faith: portrait of a kingdom consumed, piece-by-piece, by Palleseen diplomatic subterfuge. 3.1 Lives of Bitter Rain: a prequel novella to Days of Shattered Faith, portrait of a life in the Palleseen diplomatic corps. 4. Pretenders to the Throne of God: portrait of a city under siege. 5. The Grave of Perfection: will take us back to Ilmar, the 'City of Last Chances' where our story began.