A violent attack on Lady Giulietta’s child forces Tycho from his new-found happiness and back into the treacherous intrigue from the court. For Giulietta’s sake he’d go directly to the world’s end to track down those accountable. As Venice teeters over the brink of civil battle, its feuding family members prepare to discover who is a new player and who a pawn in the arriving struggle for power. The Exiled Cutter may be the climactic finale to Tycho’s story. Compliment for THE ASSASSINI TRILOGY ‘An substitute globe that lays down its own traditional strata . the writing is spare and detached; the culture described is certainly brutal and sadistic’ – Situations Literary Supplement ‘Gritty, grimy, decadent and engaging’ – Sunday Times ‘The composing is usually elegant, the dialogue razor razor-sharp, the characters drawn economically but effectively, and the actions can be unrelenting’ – SciFi Today (five-star evaluate) ‘Conjures up the town so vividly that you can almost contact the place’ – SFX