David Scrimshaw reviewed An Orc on the Wild Side by Tom Holt
Mordak is really trying his best
5 stars
It seems to me that it's not so much that Mordak is decent and not evil, it's that he values effectiveness over being evil for the sake of being evil.
I might have a slight preference for Tom Holt's books written under the name "KJ Parker", but I still really enjoy spending time in the worlds Tom Holt has given us under his own name.