Authors: Jr. L. E. Modesitt
Scholar
Princeps
Imager's Battalion
Antiagon Fire
Rex Regis
Madness in Solidar
Treachery's Tools
Assassin's Price
(forthcoming)
The Corean Chronicles
Legacies
Darknesses
Scepters
Alector's Choice
Cadmian's Choice
Soarer's Choice
The Lord-Protector's Daughter
Lady-Protector
The Saga of Recluce
The Magic of Recluce
The Towers of the Sunset
The Magic Engineer
The Order War
The Death of Chaos
Fall of Angels
The Chaos Balance
The White Order
Colors of Chaos
Magi'i of Cyador
Scion of Cyador
Wellspring of Chaos
Ordermaster
Natural Ordermage
Mage-Guard of Hamor
Arms-Commander
Cyador's Heirs
Heritage of Cyador
Recluce Tales
(forthcoming)
The Spellsong Cycle
The Soprano Sorceress
The Spellsong War
Darksong Rising
The Shadow Sorceress
Shadowsinger
The Ecolitan Matter
Empire & Ecolitan (
comprising
The Ecolitan Operation
and
The Ecologic Secession)
Ecolitan Prime (
comprising
The Ecologic Envoy
and
The Ecolitan Enigma)
The Forever Hero (
comprising
Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior,
and
In Endless Twilight)
Timegods' World (
comprising
Timediver's Dawn
and
The Timegod)
The Ghost Books
Of Tangible Ghosts
The Ghost of the Revelator
Ghost of the White Nights
Ghosts of Columbia (
comprising
Of Tangible Ghosts
and
The Ghost of the Revelator)
The Hammer of Darkness
The Green Progression
The Parafaith War
Adiamante
Gravity Dreams
The Octagonal Raven
Archform: Beauty
The Ethos Effect
Flash
The Eternity Artifact
The Elysium Commission
Viewpoints Critical
Haze
Empress of Eternity
The One-Eyed Man
Solar Express
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Tor Books by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
TREACHERY'S TOOLS
Copyright © 2016 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
All rights reserved.
Map by Jon Lansberg
Cover art by Donato Giancola
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates
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First Edition: October 2016