Contrarian av L E Modesitt

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<p><b>L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his gaslamp political fantasy series which began with <i>Isolate</i> and <i>Councilor</i>. Welcome to the Grand Illusion.</b><br><br>In <i>Contrarian</i>, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy.<br><br>Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths¿but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building by insurrectionists. <br><br>His patron, the Premier of the Council, has been assassinated, leaving Dekkard with little first-hand political experience and few political allies.<br><br>Not only must Dekkard handle political infighting, and continued assassination attempts, but it appears that so