Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need - food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives.
The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.
For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret from the rest of the company. And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over.
Praise for KJ Parker:
- 'I was hooked from the very first scene … these fantasies (without a whit of magic) explore the human condition and reveal it all, brain, heart, guts and bowels, with a startling precision' Locus, 'Thoroughly engrossing' Focus, 'Devices and Desires is as complicated, efficient, and well constructed as its protagonist's well-oiled machines' Starburst, 'A bravura display of intricate storytelling and artfully doled out revelations' SFX
Trade Paperback:
£12.99
Published 02/10/2008
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