num_pages: 323
description: Emma Bannon forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare a failed unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other or that Bannon's Shield Mikal might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce them into treachery toward their Queen. In an alternate London where illogical magic has turned the Industrial Revolution on its head Bannon and Clare now face hostility treason cannon fire black sorcery and the problem of reliably finding hansom cabs. The game is afoot.. 
language: English
title: The Iron Wyrm Affair
publisher: Orbit