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The Hidden Cities
Written by Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon
Every
big city has a soul, and every soul has a dark, secret side.
Christopher
Golden and Tim Lebbon are delighted to announce a thematically
connected series of collaborative contemporary fantasy novels
for Bantam Spectra. The Hidden Cities books will be set in places
we all know very well - places which hold secrets almost beyond
belief.
Mind
the Gap: A Novel of The Hidden Cities
You
never know when you'll find yourself
falling through one of the cracks in the world...
Two
of today's brightest stars of dark fantasy combine their
award-winning, critically acclaimed talents in this spellbinding
new tale of magic, terror, and adventure that begins when a
young woman slips through the space between our everyday world
and the one hiding just beneath it.
Always
assume there's someone after you. That was the paranoid
wisdom her mother had hardwired into Jasmine Towne ever since
she was a little girl. Now, suddenly on her own, Jazz is going
to need every skill she has ever been taught to survive enemies
both seen and unseen. For her mother had given Jazz one last
invaluable piece of advice, written in her own blood.
Jazz
Hide Forever
All
her life Jazz has known them only as the "Uncles,"
and her mother seemed to fear them as much as depend on them.
Now these enigmatic, black-clad strangers are after Jazz for
reasons she can't fathom, and her only escape is to slip
into the forgotten tunnels of London's vast underground.
Here she will meet a tribe of survivors calling themselves the
United Kingdom and begin an adventure that links her to the
ghosts of a city long past, a father she never knew, and a destiny
she fears only slightly less than the relentless killers who'd
commit any crime under heaven or earth to prevent her from fulfilling
it.
Additional
Details
Published by Spectra
400 pages
May 20th, 2008
ISBN-10: 0553384694
ISBN-13: 978-0553384697
Reviews
"A
pitch-perfect blend of fantasy and realism. Golden and Lebbon
craft a riveting tale of adventure that is both gritty and magical."
- Kelley Armstrong, author of Personal
Demon
"Mind
the Gap ... is an enjoyable, engrossing read that delivers plenty
of thrills."
- Green Man Reviews
"Golden and Lebbon do a wonderful job with this book, pulling
you in with a strong opening and a likable protagonist in Jazz,
and then maintaining the story with an array of mysteries and
puzzles, and a cast of engaging characters."
- Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Reminiscent
of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and the classic Dickens'
Oliver Twist, this book gives the dark fantasy genre
a gothic twist."
- Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Read
an excerpt from Mind the Gap.
Download
the Bantam podcast with Christopher Golden
The
Map of Moments: A Novel of the Hidden Cities
Volume two of the Hidden Cities series will be set in New Orleans. A full summary will be added here when available.
Additional
Details
Published by Spectra
400 pages
January 27th, 2009
ISBN-10: 0553384708
ISBN-13: 978-0553384703
Visit
The Hidden Cities website at http://www.thehiddencities.com
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