Ancient gods and modern armies clash in a riveting alternative-history thriller. Cheryl MacIntyre loves her work on the Menmenet homicide squad. Then she's fired-for being American. When she plunges into Ta'an-Imenty politics to get her job back, she finds only an endless well of corruption. Shesmu za-Akhen, her lover, can't help her because he gets a frantic call from the mountains of Washeshu,...