A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

What are we, if not instruments in service to one another?

shall keep you close—for though you and I are small, together we shall forge grand things indeed.”

As Sir Terry Pratchett once put it, it’s as if even the most intelligent person has this little blank spot in their heads where someone’s written: “Kings. What a good idea.”

Leave it to RJB to have me highlighting the author's note