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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
A Fantasy Novel by K. J. Parker
Book 1 of the The Siege Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Siege,
- Military Fantasy,
- Antihero Protagonist
This book is for you if you're into...
- Siege stories told by a scheming, authority-hating engineer
- Dry wit woven through desperate, bureaucracy-fueled city defense
- Narrators who bend the truth as much as the rules
From Little Stack
KJ Parker’s writing is dryly witty and so entertaining, with his The Siege series being one of his absolute best works to date.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City introduces us to this grand, corrupt, bureaucracy-driven city coming under siege, with only a siege engineer capable of defending it. But the trilogy just keeps going to crazier and more unpredictable places in the books that follow, yet manages to pack so much heart into each of the characters you follow. It’s a spellbinding and addicting trilogy you won’t be able to put down.
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 authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job.
Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.
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