Iain M Banks Collection Culture Series 9 Books Bundle (Surface Detail, Matter, Consider Phlebas, Look To Windward, Inversions, Excession, The State of the Art, Use Of Weapons, The Player Of Games)

In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. Both the doctor and the bodyguard have at least one person they care for deeply and who cares for them. None of them, however, can risk saying so