Лучшие книги Сета Дикинсона

Завтра Бару Корморан выйдет на пляж и увидит на горизонте алые паруса. Империя Масок нагрянет, вооружившись монетами и чернилами, доктринами и компасами, мылом и ложью. Чужаки завоюют Тараноке, родной остров Бару, перепишут его культуру, запретят его обычаи и отнимут одного из ее отцов. Но Бару терпелива. Она проглотит свою ненависть и станет частью Маскарада. Она пробьется наверх и заполучит власть, чтобы освободить свой народ. Проверяя ее верность, Маскарад прикажет Бару навести порядок в далеком Ордвинне, притоне мятежников, шпионов и герцогов-бунтарей. Но Бару весьма искушена в политических играх, а ее безжалостность в вопросах…

Baru Cormormant's world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. To exact her revenge, she has clawed her way up razor-edged rungs of betrayal, sacrifice, and compromise, becoming the very thing she seeks to destroy.
Now she strides in the Masquerade's halls of power. To save the world, she must tear it asunder...and with it, all that remains of her soul.

Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.

The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them.

But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain.

Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself?

Baru's enemies close in from all sides. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path—a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize.

If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes.