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The Carrion City - The Dead Take the A-Train

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The Carrion City - The Dead Take the A-Train follows Julie Crews, a coked-up, burnt-out psychic operative navigating the dark and dangerous magic scene of New York City. Striving to rise above her dead-end existence, Julie takes on gruesome jobs and summons a guardian angel for a career boost. However, her reckless ambition inadvertently unleashes an elder god threatening the entire galaxy, escalating the body count and chaos.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy gritty urban fantasy fused with cosmic horror, featuring a complex, flawed protagonist and a fast-paced, darkly magical narrative.

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A gritty, explosive and bloody cosmic horror, Buffy meets American Psycho, about a roguish magical fixer, who is the only thing stopping the finance industry from summoning the eldritch beings they worship and serve.

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Julie Crews is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-something who packs a lot of magic into her small body. She’s trying to establish herself as a major Psychic Operative in the NYC magic scene, and she’ll work the most gruesome gigs to claw her way to the top.

Desperate to break the dead-end grind, Julie summons a guardian angel for a quick career boost. But when her power grab accidentally releases an elder god hellbent on the annihilation of our galaxy, the body count rises rapidly.

The Dead Take the A Train is a high-octane cocktail of Khaw’s cosmic horror and Kadrey’s gritty fantasy—shaken, not stirred.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803368009

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 400

About the Author

Richard Kadrey is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been nominated for both the Locus and BSFA awards. His novel Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” Some of Kadrey’s other books include King Bullet, The Everything Box, The Grand Dark, and Butcher Bird. He also writes for film, games, and comics such as Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Reactor. Khaw is also the co-author of The Dead Take the A Train, co-written with bestselling author Richard Kadrey.

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