If what hooked you in Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City was Orhan’s sardonic, cut‑the‑nonsense voice as he bluffs, bribes guilds, and jerry‑rigs siege fixes to keep a doomed city standing, you’ll click with Basso in The Folding Knife. He’s another razor‑smart operator who treats politics, finance, and infrastructure like tools in a kit—solving crises with budget sheets and cold logic as deftly as Orhan does with improvised defenses. It’s the same morally gray, engineer‑brain satisfaction of watching a city’s fate decided by the person who actually understands how things work.

You enjoyed how Orhan weaponizes paperwork, politics, and clever hacks to hold the city together—often with a grin and a con. In Going Postal, Moist von Lipwig takes that same energy and revives a failing postal system by outwitting rival power brokers, massaging public morale, and turning civic infrastructure into a stage for audacious stunts. If Orhan’s wry asides and administrative brinkmanship entertained you, Moist’s showman‑administrator routine will feel like catnip.

Part of the punch of Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City is watching Orhan—a member of an oppressed people—navigate the colonizer’s bureaucracy and turn its machinery to his own ends. The Traitor Baru Cormorant pushes that to a ruthless extreme: Baru joins the empire that crushed her home, then uses accounting, policy, and social engineering as her siege engines. If Orhan’s ledger‑minded statecraft and chilly compromises intrigued you, Baru’s razor‑exact politicking will floor you.

If you liked being inside Orhan’s head—his dry annalist voice tallying bodies, lumber, and lies while the city totters—Croaker’s chronicles in The Black Company deliver that same boots‑on‑the‑ground candor. You’ll get field‑expedient tactics, ugly compromises, and the weary humor of soldiers doing whatever it takes to survive sieges and campaigns. It’s the gritty, eyewitness ledger of war you admired in Orhan’s account, just from a mercenary doctor’s pen.

Orhan’s seat‑of‑the‑pants fixes—turning shortages into stratagems and conning power brokers to keep the walls standing—echo in Locke’s audacious scams across Camorr. The Lies of Locke Lamora pinballs through escalating, tightly timed gambits as the Gentleman Bastards improvise around betrayals and shifting turf wars. If you loved the breathless, make‑it‑work momentum of Orhan’s defense, Locke’s capers will give you that same high‑wire thrill.