Evil For Evil: The Engineer Trilogy: Book Two

by K.J. Parker

He remembered Jarnac Ducas when he saw him: a huge man, far too much material for one human being, like a double-yolked egg.

He yawned. ‘I had a long talk with their head man,’ he said. ‘Apparently they’re going to wipe the Mezentines off the face of the earth for me. I said not to bother on my account, but they reckoned it was no trouble.’