Lacking Natural Simplicity

Dzur, by Steven Brust, copyright 2006; Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, November 2007. A chance to visit with an entertaining, if dangerous, old friend.

Maxie's Demon, by Michael Scott Rohan, copyright 1997; Orbit/Little, Brown and Company (UK), 1997. This is part of Rohan's Core and Spiral series, but this book features a new protagonist; Stephen Fisher does appear a couple of times in the book. When I bought these books second hand over the Internet in late 2007 or early 2008, this was by far the most expensive to acquire, and it appears to be a U.K. edition; was a version ever published by a U.S. version?