In the dim war room of the fractured nation of Kestrel, General Alaric Voss faced a nightmare. His enemy, the brilliant tactician Lysandra Hale, had seized the capital with a revolutionary army half his size. Conventional battles had failed him. Now, as his loyalists huddled in a frozen mountain pass, Voss abandoned textbooks for a dog-eared manuscript: The 33 Strategies of War .
“Thirty-three strategies,” she whispered, lowering her pistol. “You used all of them.” the 33 strategies of war
Voss shook his head. “Only ten. The rest are for keeping the peace afterward.” He gestured to a second chair. “That’s the real war, Lysandra. Shall we begin?” In the dim war room of the fractured