Retribution

Ordered to Kuvash, the exotic capital of Koton, Sun Chamber Officer Lucan Drakenfeld and his associate Leana are on the trail of a missing revered priest. They soon find him . . . or at least parts of him. When several more bodies are discovered mutilated and dumped in a public place, Drakenfeld realizes that he is hunting for a killer who delights in inflicting torture and pain. With no motive and no leads, and working in a strange city whose customs and politics are as complex as they are dangerous, he soon feels out of his depth.For Kuvash is a place of contradictions; wealth and poverty exist uneasily side by side and behind the rich facades of gilded buildings, all levels of depravity and decadence are practised.Seeking the truth here is likely to get him killed.Praise for Drakenfeld'Newton has wrought a fast-paced fantasy thriller which should appeal to readers of C. J. Sansom' Independent on Sunday'If Drakenfeld was a locked-room mystery, Retribution is a much more straightforward revenge novel . . . Thoroughly enjoyable'sffworld.comhttp://markcnewton.com/@MarkCN