Title | : | Half-Resurrection Blues: Bone Street Rumba, Book 1 (Unabridged) |
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Author | : | Daniel José Older |
Release | : | 2015-01-06 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
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1 | Half-Resurrection Blues: Bone Street Rum | Daniel José Older |
First in a brand new urban fantasy series "Because I'm an inbetweener - and the only one anyone knows of at that - the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it's something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn'ta been." Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents - an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that's missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind - until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death. One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He's summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they're spreading through the city like a plague. They've already taken out some of NYCOD's finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld - which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead. But in uncovering this man's identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life - and death... |