Just don't call them heroes, aye." -Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends The Dawnhounds heaves with life, a tangible sense of cosmic power simmering from the waters around this port city and from the people trying to save it. There's real imagination at work here-I loved it." -Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun
A strange and wondrous re-imagining of noir that takes its cues from biopunk and SE Asian mythos to create something wholly different. "A wonderful queer noir fever dream." -Tamsyn Muir, internationally bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781982187057 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 327 g Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Quickly falling in with the pirate crew who has found her, she must race against time to stop a plague from being unleashed by the evil that has taken root in Hainak. Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. She's barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to "lifestyle choices" after being caught at a gay club. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night. The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons.
Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Maori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.
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