King Rat
Author: China Miéville
Something is stirring in London’s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul’s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the night-land behind London’s fa ade, in sewers and slums and rotting dead spaces, Saul must….Read More
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