Devices and Desires

A World Fantasy award-winning author “raises the bar for realistic fantasy war craft. . . . [an] exquisite feat of literary engineering” ( Publishers Weekly ). When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of guild law, he flees the city, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Forced into exile, he seeks a terrible vengeance—one that will leave a trail of death and destruction in its wake. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. He must draw up his plans using the b