Author Vocabulary Calendar: Ian sure loves unusual words.Anyone Can Die: Do not get attached to any of the characters in these books.Indeed, his brutal decisions and willingness to engage in "ends justify the means" behavior to pursue his own goal ultimately sees him slip into, perhaps, Villain Protagonist status by the third novel. Anti-Hero: Despite fighting to save humanity, Jaq is not a conventional hero by any measure.Always Someone Better: Meh'lindi is an incredibly skilled combatant, but even she proves no match for Jain Zar.The series focuses on their adventures as they become caught up in a great conspiracy, one that seems to threaten the entirety of the Imperium itself. The trilogy revolves around Inquisitor Jaq Draco of the Ordo Malleus, and his band of acolytes, the most prominent two being Grimm the Squat and Meh'lindi, an Assassin of the Callidus Temple - both characters had previously appeared in short stories written by Ian Watson (Grimm as a side-character in the story Warped Stars and Meh'lindi as the protagonist of The Alien Beast Within), both of which appeared in the anthology book Deathwing. According to an interview with Ian, a fourth novel was planned but never got beyond the concept stage. The novels were written and published in the 1990s, so they utilize older lore that has since fallen out of continuity. Inquisition War is a trilogy of novels - Inquisitor (later renamed Draco), Harlequin and Chaos Child - set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, written by Ian Watson (who wrote the story for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence). Reissue cover showing inquisitor Jaq Draco
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