Author: Jonathan Barnes Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy
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ISBNs: 9780061671418 9780575082304 006167141X 0575082305 |
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With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a richly evoked setting and a playful and highly literate style, this is a literary fantasy from the author of 'The Somnambulist'.
In an earlier century, Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain, signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious, inhuman entity. Now, generations later, the bill has finally come due.
An amiable, unambitious London file clerk, Henry Lamb leads an unremarkable life-until the day he learns he's expected to assume the covert responsibilities of his universally despised, now comatose grandfather. London is at war, and a shadowy organization known (to a very few) as the Directorate wishes to recruit Henry to the cause. All he has to do is find "the girl," save the world from the monster Leviathan, and defeat the unspeakable evil lurking in the cellar of 10 Downing Street: the serial-slaying schoolboy twins known as the Domino Men.
This book is part of the "Domino Men" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Somnambulist" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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