The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

by Anthony Ryan

“… a slave to hate is most wretched of captives,” it said. “For his chains are of his own making…”

Scholars will often wax poetic on the terrors and depredations of war, but in doing so they blind themselves to an awful truth: war is as alluring and seductive as it is destructive and terrible. True peace will only come when we close our hearts to its promises, for always they are proven to be lies.