Contrarian: A Novel in the Grand Illusion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250847010)

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his gaslamp political fantasy series which began with Isolate and Councilor. Welcome to the Grand Illusion

In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy.

Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building by insurrectionists.

His patron, the Premier of the Council, has been assassinated, leaving Dekkard with little first-hand political experience and few political allies.

Not only must Dekkard handle political infighting, and continued assassination attempts, but it appears that someone high up in the government and corporations has supplied arms and explosives to insurrectionists.

Insurrectionists who have succeeded in taking over a naval cruiser that no one can seem to find.

The Grand Illusion
Isolate
Councilor
Contrarian

Other Series by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Imager Portfolio
The Corean Chronicles
The Spellsong Cycle
The Ghost Books
The Ecolitan Matter

Author: L. E. Modesitt
ISBN-10: 125084701X
ISBN-13: 9781250847010
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 18
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 94
Booklist 06/21/2023