The Ruin of Angels: A Novel of the Craft Sequence, Paperback
Descriere
Max Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls ``the best kind of urban fantasy`` and NPR calls ``sharp, original, and passionate``The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a squidlike tower dominates the skyline, and the foreign Iskari Rectification Authority keeps strict order in this once-independent city--while treasure seekers, criminals, combat librarians, nightmare artists, angels, demons, dispossessed knights, grad students, and other fools gather in its ever-changing alleys, hungry for the next big score. Priestess/investment banker Kai Pohala (last seen in Full Fathom Five) hits town to corner Agdel Lex's burgeoning nightmare startup scene, and to visit her estranged sister Lei. But Kai finds Lei desperate at the center of a shadowy, and rapidly unravelling, business deal. When Lei ends up on the run, wanted for a crime she most definitely committed, Kai races to track her sister down before the Authority finds her first. But Lei has her own plans, involving her ex-girlfriend, a daring heist into the god-haunted desert, and, perhaps, freedom for an occupied city. Because Alikand might not be completely dead--and some people want to finish the job.
Despre autor
Max Gladstone este un autor american. Este cel mai bine cunoscut pentru romanul său de debut din 2012, Three Parts Dead, parte din seria The Craft Sequence, precum și pentru serialul său de fantezie urbană Bookburners. De asemenea, este cunoscut pentru co-autorarea nuvelei premiate din 2019, This Is How You Lose the Time War.
