How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege #2)

by K.J. Parker

I told her what I’d been doing, or an artistic version thereof, in which virtue was triumphant and evil utterly vanquished. She pretended she couldn’t hear me over the noise of the wheel. Like I said, I’m a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

When I was a kid – you’re sick of hearing about my irrelevant and unedifying childhood, but bear with me just one more time –