The thrilling conclusion to Hugo Award-winning author Kameron Hurley's
bloody, far-future bugpunk debut trilogy, reissued in mass market.
After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service
to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with
eliminating deserters and traitors.
The end of a centuries-long holy war between her country, Nasheen, and
neighboring Chenja has flooded the streets of Nasheen with
unemployed--and unemployable--soldiers whose frustrations have brought
the nation to the brink of civil war.
Not everyone likes this tenuous and unpredictable peace, however, and
somebody has kidnapped a key politician whose death could trigger a
bloody government takeover. With aliens in the sky and revolution on the
ground, Nyx assembles a team of mad magicians, torturers, and mutant
shape-shifters for an epic journey across a flesh-eating desert in
search of a man she's not actually supposed to kill.
Trouble is, killing is the only thing Nyx is good at. And she already
left this man to die...