Bull's Blood

A new Insulan Empire novel from the author of 'The Orderly' and 'The Flame Owl'.
Looking forward to the approaching university year, Michal Piech arrives at his new lodgings. The young law student hasn't bargained on being thrust right into the middle of army machinations involving the future of the Insulan Empire. Major Grigory Bykov has a courtesan mistress who returns his enthusiastic attentions, a flat stuffed full of secret army papers, and a nasty apparition stuck in an inkwell. Having heard ugly rumours about what the army does to spies, Michal finds solace in the arms of an architect more interested in the delights of Bacchus than in bricks and mortar.
However, when Bykov's own lover takes deadly offence at his choice of partner, Michal must lay his own liberty on the line to secure justice for the angry dead.