Promotional Information

* Featured on www.orbitbooks.co.uk and in the Orbit ezine. * Review copies mailed to the national, London and genre presses and key websites. * Author signings in London and the South East

About the Author

Mike Carey is the acclaimed writer of Lucifer and Hellblazer (now filmed as Constantine). He has recently completed a comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and is the current writer on Marvel's X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four. He has also written the screenplay for a movie, Frost Flowers, which is soon to be produced by Hadaly Films and Bluestar Pictures.

Reviews

'You'll be up all night finishing this one.' Richard Morgan;'Fast, fun and furious, worth it for the final joke alone.' THE GUARDIAN; 'Witty, deadpan and shudderingly noir ... Carey drives this thriller like Chandler at the wheel of a runaway hearse' DAILY EXPRESS; 'Entertaining, well-paced, intelligently plotted and full of memorable characters' THE TIMES; 'A stunning supernatural thriller ... here, I guarantee, is one of the best books you'll read this year!' SF REVU.COM

'You'll be up all night finishing this one.' Richard Morgan;'Fast, fun and furious, worth it for the final joke alone.' THE GUARDIAN; 'Witty, deadpan and shudderingly noir ... Carey drives this thriller like Chandler at the wheel of a runaway hearse' DAILY EXPRESS; 'Entertaining, well-paced, intelligently plotted and full of memorable characters' THE TIMES; 'A stunning supernatural thriller ... here, I guarantee, is one of the best books you'll read this year!' SF REVU.COM

Every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after Vicious Circle). Felix "Fix" Castor,Åa London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and other paranormal creatures, faces two major challenges. The burial of Fix's friend John Gittings is disrupted by a lawyer with a court order mandating that the corpse be cremated; Gittings's widow retains Fix to prevent the body's exhumation. Meanwhile, a woman asks Fix to clear her husband of rape and murder charges by proving that Myriam Seaforth Kale, a gangster who's been dead for 40 years, is actually responsible. While looking into how Kale has come back from the dead to resume killing people, Fix finds links to a larger threat from the dark side. Carey has a way with words (a character dresses "like someone who'd taken The Matrix a little too seriously") as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality. (July) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.