The Mercy of Ghosts

In the frozen iron towns of the Alara Federation, a disenfranchised man loses his final appeal against the lifetime firearm ban that branded him a civil ghost. What follows is a revenge plotted in the key of cold rust and empty factories, narrated by a dead man who does not yet know he is dead. As the machinery of state and sympathy closes around him, the true executioner is revealed to be the very compassion of strangers—the readers themselves.