Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City Author:K. J. Parker The powerful new novel from World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker and the start of a sweeping new epic fantasy series. — A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. — Their only chance rests with a colonel of engineers - a despised ou... more »tsider, a genius, a master of military and political strategy with the wrong color skin. He is the City's only hope.
But nobody, rich or poor, wants to take orders from a jumped-up Milkface. Saving the City from itself might be more difficult than surviving the coming siege.
For more from K. J. Parker, check out:
The Two of SwordsThe Two of Swords: Volume OneThe Two of Swords Volume TwoThe Two of Swords: Volume Three
The Fencer TrilogyColours in the SteelThe Belly of the BowThe Proof House
The Scavenger TrilogyShadowPatternMemory
Engineer TrilogyDevices and DesiresEvil for EvilThe Escapement
The CompanyThe Folding KnifeThe HammerSharps« less