CHARLIE HUSTON is the author of the bestsellers The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and The Shotgun Rule, as well as the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and several titles for Marvel Comics. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
“I absolutely loved it. Catchpenny is a brilliant book, full of
heart and the language is pitch-perfect. If Elmore Leonard had ever
written a fantasy novel, this would be it.”
—Stephen King
“A supernatural thriller set in a mystically bent Los Angeles of
dark enchantment, looking-glass larceny, and apocalyptic gaming. .
. . A hallucinatory adventure rife with the kind of extreme
violence, false leads, and hairbreadth escapes you find in
thrillers only amped up with 1980s-style rock lyrics, video game
arcana, and a mysterious force dubbed ‘mojo.’ . . . Huston’s
writing packs a rock band’s hard-driving propulsion along with an
electric guitar’s plaintive lyricism. . . . If mojo is another word
for magic, then this novel’s loaded with it.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Dark, soulful, laconic—like the very best of Tim Powers and Jim
Thompson, thrown together in an L.A. dive bar after-hours. This is
smart fantasy for our times, resonant and real, a love letter to
youth and dreams and a biting critique of what the modern world is
doing to both. Join down-at-heel, ruined dreamer Sidney Catchpenny
and his ghosts on a turbo-charged narrative ride through the mean
streets of a weirdly tilted noir, and find out what it means, once
more, to care. Spread the word: Charlie Huston is back, and it’s a
triumphant return. Until I read Catchpenny, I never realized how
much I’d missed his voice.”
—Richard K. Morgan, award-winning author of Altered Carbon
“Gripping and deeply imaginative, Catchpenny has the soul of a
classic LA noir and the beating heart of an epic fantasy. Filled
with literal magic and an unforgettable cast of characters, this
novel pulsates with life and heat, anchored by a lovable anti-hero
you can’t help but root for. Much like the eponymous Sid
Catchpenny, a thief who can travel through mirrors, this book
grabbed me by the collar and pulled me across the threshold of its
world. A dazzling joyride of a book.”
—Gina Chung, author of Sea Change and Green Frog
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