General Mulaghesh goes to Voortyashtan. Those names sound totally made up. Because they are! Fantasy! Epic fantasy! Secondary world epic fantasy! So, y'know, made up. In this world all the gods are dead, killed by an upstart race enslaved by the god-botherers with actual gods to bother anyone who won't be slaves. Now the ex-slaves rule the world, sort of, and whole nations of ex-god-botherers are traumatised by their ex-gods joining the choirs invisiblue and being ruled by the ex-slave god-murderers. This is, in fact, an awesome set-up for a made-up secondary world epic fantasy.

General Mulagesh is prodded out of retirement and sent to a resentful; and troublesome part of the world to have a look for a missing agent who was looking into a mysterious and rather odd discovery. Mysteries abound, all of them seem to have the whiff of the Divine about them, but this is definitely one god who has ceased to be, so what's that all about then? Murder and intrigue and old friends and new enemies, lost afterlives and nasty memories of the past crowd around, making life challenging for the good general. It's a riveting fantasy thriller, full of twists and turns and sometimes rather nasty surprises and reversals. Looking forward to getting the third in the trilogy.