From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a darkly comedic epic fantasy, in which a paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar are sent on a suicide mission to uncover the secret behind an unstoppable mechanical army. Perfect for lovers of found family, slow burn romance and Dungeons & Dragons.
 
We're thrilled to be producing a special edition of T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys, printed in association with Titan Books!
 
The Dryad Books edition will feature:
An exclusive, digitally printed foredge.
Block sprayed top and bottom edges.
Hand-signed by the author.
B-Format hardback.
UK 1st edition.
 
Due to ship on March 18th
 
Synopsis:
 
In the first book of this touching and darkly comic duology, a paladin, a forger, an assassin and a scholar ride out of town on an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes.
 
When forger Slate is convicted of treason, she faces a death sentence. But her unique gift for sniffing out magic (literally) earns her a reprieve—of sorts.
 
Along with a formerly demon-possessed paladin named Caliban, her murderous ex-lover, and an irritating sexist scholar, Slate sets off on a mission to learn about the Clockwork Boys, deadly mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom who have been terrorising their lands. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but they must survive a long journey through enemy territory to reach Anuket City. And Slate has her own reasons to dread returning to her former home.
 
Slate and her crew aren’t the first to be sent on this mission. None of their predecessors have returned, and Slate can’t help but feel they’ve exchanged one death sentence for another. Her increasing closeness to Caliban isn’t helping matters: for the first time in a long while, Slate might actually care about surviving.