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 field hospital tents just
behind the front line.
Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest,
healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to
war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a
particularity unorthodox medical unit.
Led by 'the Butcher', an
ogre of a man who's a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical
tincture, the unit's motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies
are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade:
elbow-deep in gore they have a first-hand view of the suffering caused
by flesh-rending monsters, arcane magical weaponry and embittered enemy
soldiers.
Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed
otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious
existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and
Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded,
arrested or worse.
Beset by enemies within and without, the last thing anyone needs is a miracle.
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