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Low Town<\/span><\/a> Promo copy<\/span><\/p>\n Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops … and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. <\/p>\n In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its cham\u00adpion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens. <\/p>\n The Warden\u2019s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his dis\u00adcovery of a murdered child down a dead-end street … set\u00adting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. As a former agent with Black House\u2014the secret police\u2014he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn\u2019t get investi\u00adgated. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psy\u00adchotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. In Low Town, no one can be trusted. <\/p>\n Daniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted … and hun\u00adgry for more.<\/p>\n \n Taken by Fire<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n HIS MISSION WAS TO DESTROY HER. A product of genetic manipulation, Melanie Milan shares a body with her malevolent sister, Phoebe. A sleek, blond predator with a heart of pure darkness, Phoebe puts their body through the wicked underbelly of sex for thrills\u2014when she\u2019s not igniting her pyrokinetic skills for an evil organization bent on taking over the world. Melanie rarely gets out to play\u2014much less fall in love. But that changes when rival ACRO agent Stryker Wills shows up, with a mission to terminate the woman who torched his partner.<\/p>\n An operative with rare abilities, Stryker soon realizes that the woman he\u2019s about to kill isn\u2019t the murderous fire starter he\u2019s been hunting. But he does want her. Melanie, with the power to ice anything in her path, is heating things up in ways that are setting fire to his blood. As long as Melanie stays in control, she is his best ally to bring down her sister and stop hellish havoc from being unleashed. Walking a tightrope of longing and hate, Stryker and Melanie begin to understand that true power lies in sweet surrender to each other, to the flames between them, to the erotic adventure that\u2019s joined their hearts and abilities to become their salvation\u2014and perhaps the world\u2019s.<\/p>\n ACK!<\/span><\/p>\n \n The Shadow Men<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n From Beacon Hill to Southie, historic Boston is a town of vibrant neighborhoods knit into a seamless whole. But as Jim Banks and Trix Newcomb learn in a terrifying instant, it is also a city divided\u2014split into three separate versions of itself by a mad magician once tasked with its protection. <\/p>\n Jim is happily married to Jenny, with whom he has a young daughter, Holly. Trix is Jenny\u2019s best friend, practically a member of the family\u2014although she has secretly been in love with Jenny for years. Then Jenny and Holly inexplicably disappear\u2014and leave behind a Boston in which they never existed. Only Jim and Trix remember them. Only Jim and Trix can bring them back.<\/p>\n With the help of Boston\u2019s Oracle, an elderly woman with magical powers, Jim and Trix travel between the fractured cities, for that is where Jenny and Holly have gone. But more is at stake than one family\u2019s happiness. If Jim and Trix should fail, the spell holding the separate Bostons apart will fail too, and the cities will reintegrate in a cataclysmic implosion. Someone, it seems, wants just that. Someone with deadly shadow men at their disposal.<\/p>\n \nPart III<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Books received 6\/18\/11 Part II<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Low Town by Daniel Polansky Promo copy Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops … and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys … Continue reading
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