Mayer Alan Brenner: Spell of Fate

As Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable comes close to solving the laws of conserving magic and tapping the gods power base, the Creeping Sword is drawn more deeply into the fight between warring gods.

Spell of Fate is a third book from the Dance of Gods series. A sequel to Spell of Catastrophe and Spell of Intrigue books tells the adventures of free-lance adventurer and nostalgic technologist Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable, physician, occasional bureaucrat, and man with a curse Zalzyn Shaa, research thaumaturge The Great Karlini, hard-boiled nom-de-plume The Creeping Sword and many others already known from the first two books.