Format: Hardcover; ISBN: 9780061671401; Publisher: William Morrow; Release Date: 2009; List Price: $24.99; Length: 382 pages; Edition: 1. Condition: Like New. Dust jacket shows a minimal of shelfwear. Cover, binding, and pages are all otherwise pristine. Same cover design as that shown here.

Synopsis:
Henry Lamb, an amiable and anonymous file clerk, pushes paper in the Storage and Record Retrieval section of the Civil Service Archive Unit. His life has always been quiet and unremarkable, until the day he learns that he's expected to assume the covert responsibilities of his universally despised grandfather, now lying comatose in the hospital. Summoned to the gargantuan Ferris wheel known as the London Eye, Henry receives his orders from Dedlock, a gilled and wrinkled old gentleman eternally floating in a pool of amniotic fluid. London, it seems, is at war, resisting an apocalyptic fate foisted upon it by a long-dead queen. A shadowy organization known (to very few) as the Directorate wishes to recruit Henry to the cause. All he has to do is find "the girl" and save the world from the monster Leviathan, who can already taste the succulent metropolis that will soon be his to devour. Simple enough. But there are formidable enemies lining up to oppose Henry, all gathering in and around the royal family. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Arthur Aelfric Vortigern Windsorthe--sniveling, over-bored, under-appreciated sole heir to the British throne--has been shaken from his resentful malaise by grisly, seductive visions of unrestrained power...and by an extremely potent narcotic called ampersand. And an unspeakable evil lurks in the cellar of 10 Downing Street: the twin, serial-slaying schoolboy nightmares, the Domino Men, so-called for their hideous desire and terrifying ability to topple every towering edifice in the city, one after the other, just for a giggle. In the sequel to the crazed Victoriana of The Somnambulist, the imaginative and brilliant Barnes brings his invention, satire, and curiosities up to date in this work hailed as the best fantasy novel of the year.

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