The Furthest Station
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4.4 • 34 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there’s a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.
Enter PC Peter Grant, junior member of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Assessment unit a.k.a. The Folly a.k.a. the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting. Together with Jaget Kumar, his counterpart at the British Transport Police, he must brave the terrifying crush of London’s rush hour to find the source of the ghosts.
Joined by Peter’s wannabe wizard cousin, a preschool river god and Toby the ghost hunting dog, their investigation takes a darker tone as they realise that a real person’s life might just be on the line.
And time is running out to save them.
With this new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Aaronovitch's novella featuring PC Peter Grant of London's Special Assessment Unit (aka the Folly), which has the brief of investigating "disruptive phantasmagoria," is an excellent entry point to the Peter Grant series for newcomers who like their urban fantasies rendered with a light touch. Reports of a ghost on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground prompt Peter to investigate, and he soon finds an eyewitness who saw a man fade out from view right in front of her eyes. But others who had reported having been assaulted by a "man who wasn't there" are less cooperative: seven complainants deny that anything untoward ever happened and even that they'd made complaints in the first place. The story is intriguing enough to pull readers along, and Peter's dry humor will linger in the memory: at one point he describes a shopping center that artfully combines "a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built."
Customer Reviews
A great book! Best series.
It’s the the prefect level of the absurd!