In the Shadow of Lightning

Demir Grappo is a voluntary exile. Faced with betrayal in war and suffering a severe moral injury, he parted ways with wealth and power, renouncing his duties as a commander, ruler, and son, and retreated to the province, where he risks ending his days in disgrace. Everything changes with the brutal murder of his mother, a prominent imperial politician. Demir returns to Ossa, the capital of the empire, to take his place as head of the family and uncover the crime, and suddenly learns that the world's reserves of raw materials for godglass — magical glass, without which the existence of civilization is inconceivable — have been exhausted. This means he must urgently form alliances, rally friends and rivals under his banner, and counter the powerful guild families that are trying to seize the remnants of the precious raw materials... He must prepare for a war that will overshadow all previous wars. Brian McClellan is known to readers as the creator of the popular military fantasy series "Powder Mage." For the first time in Russian!