When intelligence operative Shara’s old friend/Saypurian historian of the Continent is murdered in the central city of Bulikov, Shara investigates. Now, Saypur is the colonizer, and the ravaged remnants of the Continent are deeply resentful. Three hundred years ago, the people of Saypur (alt-Indian subcontinent, seems like) managed to kill the gods of their colonizers on the Continent (alt-Russia/Central Europe), which was the only place that had gods. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem-and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself-first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it-stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions-until its divine protectors were killed. An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city-from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers.
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