KJ Parker Books in Order

Set in the same crooked world of theology and deals, this novella follows a character playing an extended con that spans decades, rival churches and infernal contracts. Every short‑term compromise feeds into a plan whose end only the protagonist truly understands.

A theology student with heavy gambling debts is told his grandfather once stole and imprisoned an angel. To avoid losing body parts, he must find the creature, prove the story and face the possibility that his entire understanding of God and free will is wrong.

A gifted translator and diplomat finds himself brokering peace—and then empire‑reshaping conquest—among warring powers. His knack for languages and compromise makes him indispensable, but also leaves him uncomfortably aware of the human cost behind tidy treaties and grand strategies.

Having once again faked his own death, Saloninus is persuaded by an old partner to attempt a perfect literary con: forging a "lost" masterpiece by himself. Selling new work as a posthumous rarity proves lucrative, until questions about art, ownership and honesty complicate the scam.

A former duke of Hell, now downgraded to a low‑key tempter distracting monks, is dragged into a plot that may upend the rules of Good and Evil. Trapped with a sadistic exorcist and bureaucratic superiors, he finds that even demons can be in over their heads.

A nameless exorcist, brutally efficient and not much interested in collateral damage, is sent to deal with a demon possessing the scholar Prosper of Schanz. When he realises Prosper is raising a supposed philosopher‑king, the moral arithmetic of his job becomes far murkier.

Notker, an actor and impressionist, is hired to impersonate a dead war hero in a city under siege. As he stumbles into real power, he has to balance propaganda, survival and conscience, all while knowing he’s playing a role that could get him killed.

When the capital’s army is annihilated and its rulers flee, bridge‑building engineer Orhan finds himself in charge of saving a city with no soldiers, no supplies and an unstoppable enemy. His defence relies on lies, improvisation and a talent for making do.

Continuing the mosaic narrative, Volume Two widens the lens to include courtiers, quartermasters and members of a secretive Lodge whose card‑based rituals nudge history. Alliances twist, fronts shift and the reasons for the war grow ever more obscure to those fighting it.

The final volume draws together the many strands of the war between East and West. Long‑planned operations collide with luck, betrayal and exhaustion as soldiers and schemers alike discover what the struggle has really been about—and what victory could possibly mean.

This volume opens a sweeping civil‑war saga in a divided empire. From a farm boy drafted as an archer to a lethal agent named Telamon, shifting viewpoints show how a feud between two brilliant generals has trapped ordinary people in an endless, senseless conflict.

Old, ill and out of options, Saloninus strikes a bargain with a devil for more life. Both sides fully expect to cheat the other, and the resulting duel of loopholes, philosophy and legalese is as much about identity as it is about damnation.

An unnamed man wakes to find his life destroyed and reinvents himself in an empire permanently on the brink of war. As his path crosses that of a pacifist arms‑maker, a brilliant general, a forger and a counterfeiter, shifting identities drive a sprawling tale of conquest.

A motley fencing team from one nation is sent on tour to a recent enemy state as a gesture of goodwill. Officially they’re athletes; unofficially they’re supposed to help prevent another war. Unfortunately, nobody has told their hosts to play along.

On a distant colony world, the wealthy Gignomai family rules a backwater settlement with casual brutality. Youngest son Gignomai turns his talent for making things into a long, secret plan that involves guns, foundries and the careful reordering of an entire society.

Basso, First Citizen of the Vesani Republic, has turned his city into a thriving commercial power through charm, nerve and ruthless calculation. When one rare mistake sets off a chain of disaster, he has to decide what, if anything, he can still save.

Saloninus, alchemist and occasional murderer, cheerfully admits to poisoning his wife and discovering how to turn lead into gold. As he narrates his attempts to flee execution, every anecdote raises new doubts about what really happened and what he wants the reader to believe.

Years after the war, five veterans and their former commander Kunessin decide to cash in an old promise: they’ll settle together on a remote island and build a small republic. Supplies, spouses and plans are arranged—then the discovery of gold changes everything.

As Ziani’s designs reach their final phase, his carefully built engine of war threatens to destroy far more than the city that exiled him. Old loyalties, family ties and the limits of foresight all snap under pressure in this conclusion to the Engineer trilogy.

Ziani’s long game draws Mezentia’s neighbours into a brutal war they think they understand. Dukes, queens and soldiers pursue their own tangled aims, unaware how deeply they’re enmeshed in one man’s engineering of disaster—and how high the eventual bill will be.

Engineer Ziani Vaatzes is sentenced to death by his guild for tinkering with a supposedly perfect design. Escaping to a rival nation, he begins to construct an elaborate revenge that uses armies, politics and human relationships as carefully as any machine.

Back on his native island, Poldarn finally uncovers the tangled, unpleasant truth of who he was before the battlefield. As dreams, rumours and hard facts converge, he has to decide whether living with his recovered memories is possible—or safe for anyone around him.

Still unsure of his true identity, Poldarn travels through a war‑torn land chasing hints from dreams and half‑remembered faces. Invisible enemies and old alliances shadow his steps as he returns toward the island he thinks might once have been home.

A man wakes among corpses on a battlefield with no memory of who he is. Taking the name Poldarn, he tries to piece together his past while everyone who recognises him either flees or attacks, suggesting his former life was anything but harmless.

Years after Perimadeia’s fall, Bardas Loredan works at a remote testing ground where weapons are certified and old grudges smoulder. As past choices and unfinished wars catch up with him, he’s forced into one last attempt to set things right—or at least survivable.

Exiled from Perimadeia, Bardas Loredan becomes commander of a besieging army instead of a defender. Archers, engineers and political exiles all have their own agendas as the struggle for the city continues far from its famous walls.

In the Triple City of Perimadeia, weary fencer‑at‑law Bardas Loredan wins a case that earns him a curse just as enemies prepare a once‑impossible siege. Legal sword‑duels, swordsmithing and slow, grinding war collide in this opening to the Fencer trilogy.