![]() ![]() ![]() Sharp, noir-tinged dialogue and astute insights into class struggle mark Polansky as a writer with a future. After a second and third child are slain, he realizes that it will take all of his guile and skill to survive the investigation, let alone discover what just might be an otherworldly predator at work. When the Warden discovers a murdered child in the alley of a squalid Rigus slum called Low Town, he must rely on his old expertise to find the girl's killer. He lives on the edge of imminent demise, in conflict with other dealers and pursued by the law. Fate has reduced the man known as the Warden, a former investigator for Black House, the Crown's secret police, to dealing pixie's breath and other narcotics. Rigus, one of the cities of the Thirteen Lands, is slowly rebuilding after war and plague have decimated the area's population. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Polansky hits all the right notes in his intelligent first novel, a blend of dystopian fantasy and hard-boiled crime. Daniel Polansky In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. ![]()
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