Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted on Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This book has been around the blogs for a month or so. I thought it was 

interesting and definitely want to see where Saintcrow goes with this

series.

The Iron Wyrm Affair (Bannon & Clare # 1)

by Lilith Saintcrow

Emma Bannon, Prime 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 much help that they dislike 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 

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Orbit (August 7, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031620126X
• ISBN-13: 978-0316201261