Bone Song - Brossura

Meaney, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553590952 ISBN 13: 9780553590951

Casa editrice: Spectra, 2008

Riassunto

In this darkly luminous thriller, John Meaney blends gritty futuristic noir with gothic fantasy to create a stunningly seductive world of death and desire. Here an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses as he hunts a perverse killer through a city of the dead.

There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.

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Recensione:

"A remarkable book featuring a unique dark Fantasy/SF world and great writing. The police procedural plot, creepy technology, and seamless, fascinating world make it a real page turner, full of great twists and details. Bone Song has really got it all: fantasy, horror, science fiction, cops, crime—even a love story and a dose of dark, dry humor. A great read and I can't wait for the next one."—Kat Richardson, author of Greywalker

"John Meaney brings a city of death to richly textured life. In an amazing blend of noir mystery and dark fantasy, Meaney doesn’t just build a world–he creates an eerie culture that you can truly visualize and feel. Bone Song is a thrilling and suspenseful beginning to a great new series."—Mark Del Franco, author of Unshapely Things

“Brilliantly fuses SF with elements of gothic fantasy.” —SFX

“Crisply written and vividly portrayed.”—Guardian, UK

“Grittiness is a word that all too often is thrown around, but I will apply it to the street-level, no nonsense Riordan. Fast paced, very entertaining and out of the ordinary...both haunting and engaging.”—SFFWorld.com

“[A] fanciful, macabre romp... straddles the line between gothic fantasy and detective fiction.”—Booklist
From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

John Meaney is the author of four previous novels. His novelette Sharp Tang was short-listed for the British Science Fiction Award, and To Hold Infinity and Paradox both appeared on the BSFA short lists for Best Novel. Meaney has a degree in physics and computer science and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate. He lives with his wife in Kent, where he is at work on his next novel, Black Blood, the sequel to Bone Song.

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• Editore: Spectra
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0553590952
• ISBN 13: 9780553590951
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 452