Nightwatch on the Hinterlands

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who must discover the motive behind an unusual murder.

THE TEMPLAR: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don''t kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

THE SPY: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he''s also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn''t so sure the riev''s behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.

As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide--including releasing horrors not seen since the war, that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant...

• | Author: NA
• | Publisher: Not Stated
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1900
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780756415334
• | ISBN-10: 0756415330