Use of Weapons

About “Use of Weapons”

This 1990 novel by Iain M. Banks follows Cheradenine Zakalwe, one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, who changed the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks, and military action. Diziet Sma, who had plucked him from obscurity, and the drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw, who once saved her life, both fail to see the horrors in his past.