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Legalist
A Fantasy Novel by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Book 4 of the The Grand Illusion Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Gaslamp,
- Political Fantasy,
- Court Intrigue,
- Telepathy,
- Prequel
This book is for you if you're into...
- Gaslamp fantasy where legal maneuvering is a matter of life and death
- Political intrigue with unreadable minds and hidden agendas
- Slow-burn power plays in a crumbling empire
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues the Grand Illusion, a gaslamp political fantasy series with a prequel, Legalist.
Fifty years after the establishment of the Imperium, and 450 years before the events of Isolate, Dominic Mikail Ysella—ancestor of Avraal Ysella—is the grandson of the last king of Aloor. Stripped of most of their land, Dominic, as the third son, must support himself.
Dominic becomes a legalist and is elected to the Imperial Council quietly working as an isolate, someone unreadable by government telepaths.
Amid a time of a crumbling imperial line, Dominic must build a coalition within the Council and quietly draft a new constitution to save the Imperium from itself. Uncovering rampant corruption, graft, and potential to be arrested for treason, Ysella discovers any number of ways that a simple legal specialist in water rights could get himself killed.
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