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Isolate

A Novel in the Grand Illusion

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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., best-selling author of The Mongrel Mage, has a brand-new gaslamp political fantasy: Isolate.

Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance.

Something is about to give.

Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist, and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath, are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party.

When a respected Landor Councilor dies of “heart failure” at a social event, because of his political friendship with Obreduur, Dekkard and Ysella find that not only is their employer a target, but so are they, in a covert and deadly struggle for control of the government and economy.

Steffan is about to understand that everything he believed is an illusion.

©2021 L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (P)2021 Macmillan Audio Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Heartfelt

Critic reviews

“Delicious with intrigue and artful revelations, Modesitt’s Isolate comes at you with top-drawer worldbuilding and compelling characters. Here we have a hot new gaslamp world fraught with political machinations that will keep you up reading into the night. Modesitt has always been great, so how does he keep getting better? Read Isolate and find out.” (Peter Orullian, author of The Unremembered)
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Narration very odd, sounded as if there was a fuld stop evert 5 or 6 words. And at the same time those words really had to carry a lot of drama. that godt old very quickly. Fortunately I had already real the book. If I could, I would return the title, will never ever be able to finish it

Narrator spoiled a very engaging story

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So many different characters who were difficult to tell apart. Have got to Chap 21 but probably will not bother with the rest, nothing ever seems to happen except discussions about politics.

Boring

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