Description: When an engineer is exiled and his wife executed, his anger, grief and sense of injustice cause him to devote himself to a terrible cause - the complete annihilation of the city that cast him out. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. Somehow, he needs to start a war. K. J. Parker excels himself in a story of one man' s rebellion against his fate, in a fast-moving mix of politics, action and intelligent world-building.