366 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Tor Books.
The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort. -- amazon.com
Beautiful writing, but almost nothing happens. It feels like it's setting up a great story for the subsequent novels, but I'm not pleased going through an entire book just to get the setup.
