The Strategist (The Machinery Trilogy, Book 2)

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Ruin is coming.
For ten millennia, the Machinery Selected the greatest leaders of humanity, bringing glory to the Overland. But the Machinery came with a Prophecy: in the 10,000th year, it will break, and Ruin will come.

Now, the Prophecy is being fulfilled. The Machinery has Selected a terrible being to rule the Overland, an immortal who cares little for the humans she governs. Some call her the Strategist. Others call her the One. Everyone knows her as Mother.

Mother will do anything to find the Machinery and finally bring Ruin. But only one creature knows where the Machinery is the Dust Queen, an ancient being of three bodies and endless power.

And if Mother wants the Dust Queens help, she must ready herself for a game. A game from older times. A game of memory. A game in which mortals are nothing more than pawns.

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Praise for THE MACHINERY:

The story is part apocalypse, part mystery and entirely captivating. If youre looking for a new voice in fantasy whose writing is going to get you thinking, then look no further
The Eloquent Page

If you enjoy epic fantasy with a little sci-fi thrown in, I highly suggest you grab a copy and prepare for a wild ride
Mom With a Reading Problem

Every so often you come across a book that really hits the spot. For me, THE MACHINERY was just such a book The degree of abstractness and the disjunct one only normally experiences in dream creates an underlying mood that put me in mind of Mervyn Peake
Graeme K. Talboys, author of the Shadow in the Storm series

Author Bio

Gerrard Cowan is a writer and editor from Derry, in North West Ireland. He is the author of The Machinery and The Strategist, the first two books in The Machinery Trilogy. Gerrard studied History and English Literature at Trinity College and International Relations at Kings College. His first known work was a collection of poems on monsters, written when he was eight; it is sadly lost to civilisation. He lives in South East London with his wife Sarah and son Finn.