Rachel Caine: SMOKE AND IRON W3 [2018] paperback AHIST To them she is a

To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth

the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation

There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH

'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention

Richard Tames

Rachel Caine: SMOKE AND IRON W3 [2018] paperback AHIST To them she is aJess Brightwell and his friends are the rebels trying to free humanity's knowledge from the grasps of the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. Engaged in this deadly game, Jess finds himself in an Alexandrian cell with nothing but his wits and skill to aid him. With every word, written or spoken, meticulously monitored by the Obscurists, Jess has no way to contact his friends and family. When Jess's girlfriend, Morgan, figures out how to hack the