180 pages
English language
Published June 28, 2010 by Penguin Books.
180 pages
English language
Published June 28, 2010 by Penguin Books.
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.