Fantasy
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
2019·384 pages
Orhan, a clever but reluctant engineer and outsider in a vast empire, finds himself thrust into leading the defense of a besieged walled city through sheer ingenuity and improvisation.
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Orhan, a clever but reluctant engineer and outsider in a vast empire, finds himself thrust into leading the defense of a besieged walled city through sheer ingenuity and improvisation.
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K. J. Parker's new novel is the remarkable tale of the siege of a walled city, and the even more remarkable man who had to defend it. A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authori...
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Graphic depictions of siege warfare violence, including mangled bodies, battle injuries, and efficient methods of killing
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Central themes of politics, power dynamics, deception, racial prejudice, and social stratification in an empire setting
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Themes of racial prejudice, social stratification, and suffering from war and systemic inequalities
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