'Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal . . .
turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine
writing, totally engrossing' - International bestselling author
Stephen King on The Ninth Metal It began with a comet. They called
it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the
night with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with
two suns. A year later, Earth spun through the debris field the
comet left behind. Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of meteors
plummeted into the atmosphere, destroying swaths of electrical
grids, leaving shores of beaches filled with deceased sea life, and
setting acres of land ablaze. It was then, they say, that the sky
fell. It was then that Jack lost Mia. Five years after the
disappearance of his daughter, Jack has fallen. Once an
accomplished professor of botany, he's now a shell of a man who has
all but withdrawn from life. Nora, his ex-wife, has thrown herself
into her investigative work. Separately, they have each bandaged
over the hole Mia left behind. Just as Jack is uncovering a new
form of deadly parasitic fungus in his lab, Nora is assigned to
investigate the cases of ritualistic murders dotting Seattle. The
rituals consist of etchings - crosshatches are carved into bodies
and eyes are scooped out of their sockets. The attackers appear to
be possessed. It only takes a moment - for a sickness to infect,
for a person to be killed, for a child to be lost. When Nora
enlists Jack to identify the cause of this string of vicious
deaths, Jack is quick to help. Together, they fight to keep their
moments - the unexpected laughter, the extraordinary discoveries,
the chance that Mia could come back home - but they find that what
they're up against defies all logic, and what they have to do to
save the world will change every life forever. PRAISE FOR THE COMET
CYCLE 'When Benjamin Percy publishes a novel, I have got to read
that novel. The Ninth Metal continues his streak of thrilling,
incisive genre bending goodness. Audacious and intelligent and
exactly what I was dying to read' Victor LaValle, author of The
Changeling on The Ninth Metal 'Whether you choose to think of him
as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of
Science Fiction, Percy-with his extraordinary and unrelenting
eye-dishes up humanity like some kind of otherworldly blue plate
special, at once deeply familiar and wildly new' Margaret Stohl,
No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author on The Ninth Metal 'Take
one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride
them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still
wouldn't get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open
the core of humanity's dark heart' Marlon James, Booker Prize
winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf on The Ninth Metal
'Masterful . . . Combines a missing-person case, romantic
reconciliation, and a riveting sci-fi what-if . . . A thoroughly
satisfying near-future glimpse of both disaster and salvation'
Publishers Weekly 'Terrifying, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
. . something for everyone, science fiction fans and mystery fans
alike' Kirkus Reviews
General
Imprint: |
Hodder & Stoughton
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Comet Cycle |
Release date: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Benjamin Percy
|
Dimensions: |
232 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4736-9013-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4736-9013-7 |
Barcode: |
9781473690134 |
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