The Hunt for the Blue orchid Thief amazon/dp/B00IWIKPA2 A multi-faceted mystery set in a Italianate city on a world where magic has been regulated out of existence by the rise of civilisation and the age of reason, The Hunt for the Blue Orchid Thief combines, avarice, ambition, brutality, cupidity, factional violence, gluttony, human follies, humour, politics, satire, street violence, warfare, family values, and the banality of evil in a tour-de-force entry by a new author into the genre. Witness the oddest buddy cop pairing, a Machiavellian inspired Prince determined to use the arts of war to keep the peace, rivalry between the Secret Police and the corrupt Civil Guard, the menace of the criminal mobs and mercenaries, and the oddest mystery of all, who is the Shade, the thief believed to be behind the most baffling of the crimes which have sparked the civil unrest overwhelming Fascio, the industrial city by the sea.
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