The Serrated Cliff

In the waning years of Emperor Wu's reign, the powerful Zhao clan orchestrates a cover-up after their scion’s recklessness ignites a border rebellion. Three expendable petty officials are framed for failing to foresee the unrest. But when the brother of one executed scapegoat begins a quiet, surgical campaign of vengeance, he discovers that mimicking the cruelty of his oppressors leads not to justice, but to a desolate, self-consuming abyss. Written in the claustrophobic, morally complex style of P.D. James, this is a story of institutional decay and the toxic intimacy between victim and predator.