The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War #1)

by James S.A. Corey

They’d all learned the steps in childhood, so they could all recall them in drunken adulthood.

Jessyn remembered something she’d seen as a child: an old war where one side had left an enemy soldier wounded and screaming so that they could kill anyone who came to help. It had been presented as an atrocity then. It just seemed like good tactics now.