Wolfhound Empire
- Paperback
976 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2016
Summary
Inspector Vissarion Lom is summoned to the great capital city of Mirgorod to catch the terrorist Josef Kantor. He’s been chosen because he’s an outsider, impartial to the capital’s cruel politics - though not for long.
His investigation opens his eyes to a city teeming with corruption: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, and a conspiracy that extends to the upper echelons of the government.
But Lom soon has other concerns. Nature is turning against the city, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473210646 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 147321064X |
| Author: | Peter Higgins |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 976 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 674g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 201mm x 47mm |
| Series: | The Wolfhound Century Trilogy |
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Critics Review
We can expect great things of Peter Higgins… his debut novel is uniquely intriguing.
Astonishing … exceptional - Guardian
Well-paced action… This world of a totalitarian state pitted against equally extremist revolutionaries is gripping… a solid page-turner - The SunLike vintage China Mieville, but with all the violent narrative thriller drive of Ian Fleming at his edgiest - Richard MorganThe surprises keep on coming … but quietly and subtly, like a dreaded knock on the door of an apartment in a brutalist concrete tower block in the dead of night - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Peter Higgins
Peter Higgins read English at Oxford University and Queen’s, Ontario. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and worked in the British Civil Service. His short stories have appeared in FANTASY: BEST OF THE YEAR 2007, BEST NEW FANTASY 2, ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY MAGAZINE, ZAHIR and REVELATION, and in Russian translation in the St Petersburg magazine ESLI. He lives with his family in South Wales.
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