The Reluctant Monster - Brossura

Foster, Joe

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798348582708

Casa editrice: Foster Pub. in Association with University Press of New England, 2026

Riassunto

The debt is paid. The inventory is cleared. But in the Ninth Ward, some souls are never truly free.

Valerius is a man of simple, gritty constants: the hum of his five-ton armored repo truck, the Charon; the sting of the needle; and the weight of the supernatural debts he's hired to collect. As a paranormal repo-man in a flooded, neon-drenched New Orleans, Val stays out of the crossfire between the street gangs and the ancient gods-until a routine job pulls a ghost from his past out of a submerged trunk.

When a simple car repossession reveals a boy clutching the badge of Val's deceased wife, the job transforms from a payday into a desperate rescue. Alongside Socket, a tech-genius mechanic with a penchant for high-stakes tinkering, and Natasha, a "crystalline-armored" miracle of biological destabilization, Val is forced to navigate a city where the water is rising and the monsters are hungry.

From the sterile, fluorescent medical bunkers of Montreal to the rain-slicked sprawl of the Ninth Ward, The Reluctant Monster is a high-octane urban fantasy noir. It's a story of "MacGyvered" occult tech, blood-bound contracts with Baron Samedi, and a ragtag crew of misfits fighting to repossess a future from the hands of gods and hunters alike.

"Montreal didn't have weather; it had assault charges."

If you crave the blue-collar grit of John Wick mixed with the dark, atmospheric lore of Interview with the Vampire, step into the cab of the Charon. Just remember: The repo man is coming. And he doesn't take cash

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Foster Pub. in Association with University Press of New England
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798348582708
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile