Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic the crew of a field hospital
confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning fantasy
novel City of Last Chances City-by-city kingdom-by-kingdom the Palleseen have sworn to
bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of
superstition with the bright flame of reason so they deliver a mountain of ragged holed and
scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line. Which is where Yasnic
one-time priest healer and rebel finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war
clutching a box of orphan Gods he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical
unit. Led by 'the Butcher' an ogre of a man who's a dab hand with a bone-saw and an
alchemical tincture the unit's motley crew of conscripts healers and orderlies are no
strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade: elbow-deep in gore they have a
first-hand view of the suffering caused by flesh-rending monsters arcane magical weaponry and
embittered enemy soldiers. Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed otherwise
un-saveable the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved
magic necromancy demonology and Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being
disbanded arrested or worse. Beset by enemies within and without the last thing anyone needs
is a miracle... Reviews for City of Last Chances : 'Paints a vivid detailed backdrop' SF X
'Brilliant chaos ensues' Daily Mail 'Some of Tchaikovsky's best prose' SF Crowsnest 'An
intriguing tangle... ingenious' Locus 'Endlessly creative' Patrick Ness 'Rich inventive
worldbuilding' Publishers Weekly 'Ilmar is vividly alive' David Towsey 'A master at the
height of his powers' Ian Green 'An ambitious epic fantasy read' Grimdark Magazine
