Book III · the conclusion of The First Exile Trilogy · The First Exile Trilogy
The Last Brother
HE OUTLIVED EVERY WORLD. HE NEVER OUTLIVED ONE MORNING.
Rome burns, and Cain is still walking. Plague empties the villages he passes through. Machines take the work of hands. Trenches swallow a generation of sons. Empires rise on the promise that they will last, and Cain watches every one of them go into the ground, because outliving the world turns out to be the same thing as burying it. His own blood has organised itself in his absence. The Line has houses now, and doctrines, and a man called Dariel who has decided what the deathless are owed by everyone else. He does not want Cain’s forgiveness. He wants his blessing. Refusing it will cost more than Cain has left to lose. And at the end of all of it, the oldest question in the world is still waiting for him in an ordinary field at sunrise.
417 pages · 9798194349678 · Perch Press
The conclusion of The First Exile Trilogy. Begin with Exile from Eden.
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M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.