“I can’t remember ever reading a book like Finch. This is VanderMeer’s best book since Veniss Underground, and a clear signal, if one were ever needed, that he remains one of modern fantasy’s most original and fearless pioneers.” Arthur C. Devastated post-war cityscapes, desperate temporary allegiances of the soul, and creatures dragged up out of the worst withdrawal hallucination you can possibly imagine-like something Len Deighton might have written at the top of his game, if he’d dropped a tab or six beforehand. But Vandermeer makes most so-called dark fantasy look like chick-lit, and his visionary brand of imagining is closing on Burroughs at his best. There’s enough nightmare and grit in Finch to stock any urban fantasy fan’s darkest imaginings for years to come. Because you know that come Hell or Highwater (and both are right here in this book), VanderMeer will Get The Job Done.
Look, you don’t send just anyone to write something like that-you send Jeff Vandermeer. Paranoid spy thriller, quite literally, on ‘shrooms. Listen to the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack to the novel by rock band Murder by Death. What will happen if Finch uncovers the truth? What will happen if he doesn’t? And will Ambergris ever be the same?” In this powerful and poignant novel, the past and the future, the cosmic and the gritty, collide. Partials-human traitors transformed by the gray caps-walk the streets brutalizing the city’s human inhabitants. The remnants of a rebel force are demoralized and dispersed. Under the rule of the gray cap masters, Ambergris is crumbling into anarchy and rebellion. “Tasked with solving an impossible double murder, detective John Finch searches for the truth in a metropolis unlike any other in or out of history. The final, stand-alone installment of the critically acclaimed Ambergris Cycle: Web quality Print quality Press Kit FilesĪn exciting noir thriller set in the fantastical city of Ambergris.
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