Warhammer Fantasy The Ambassador Graham McNeill Black Library 2003

Ex-general-turned-ambassador Kaspar von Velten confronts new perils, power struggles, and intrigues at the court of Tsarina Katarin of Kislev when the murder of the Tsarina's cousin, found dead in a debtors' prison in Kaspar's homeland, strains relations to the brink of war, while a brutal serial killer prepares to strike at the heart of power.