Ten years in the making, comes a literary work Like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament.An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and...
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- Sully's Fantasy (Goddess Isles, #6)
- The Lunar Warriors: The Elemental Wolves Book 2 (Part 1)
- Returning to Us: Back to Corbin’s Bend
- Harley Merlin 12: Finch Merlin and the Djinn’s Curse
- The Forbidden Passion 0f A Governess (Historical Regency)
- Two Doors, No Map: Book 2 of the Waldlust Series
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