This incredible opening to the trilogy recalls the best of John le Carré, Iain M. Banks’s Lifestyle books and Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy.

Inside a war of lies she seeks the truth .

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare moves to the Teixcalaanli Empire’s interstellar capital, eager to take up her new post. However when she arrives, she discovers her forerunner was murdered. But nobody will admit his loss of life wasn’t unintentional – and she may be next.

Now Mahit must navigate the capital’s enticing yet fatal halls of power, to discover dangerous truths. And while she hunts for the killer, Mahit must somehow prevent the rapacious Empire from annexing her home: a little, fiercely indie mining station.

As she sinks deeper into an alien culture that’s all too seductive, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she’s concealing an extraordinary technical secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life. Or it could conserve them from annihilation.

A Storage Called Empire is book one in the Teixcalaan trilogy.