Truth and Fear
Book Two of The Wolfhound Century
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A new edition with glorious new cover art.
Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and deep powers in the Earth. Its capital Mirgorod is home both to a brutal dictatorship centuries old and fleeting glimpses of the houses and streets of another city. Compared to the works of of both China Mieville and John Le Carre WOLFHOUND CENTURY was a hugely original creation. Now Peter Higgins returns to that world.
Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air-raids are a daily occurrance and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defence of the city.
But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city.
But will the horrors of war overtake all their plans?
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Higgins continues his rich, metaphyiscal exploration of alternate Soviet history (after Wolfhound Century) with a complex tale of collision between ideals and individuals, and the costs of devotion to both. In the capital city of Mirgorod and in distant areas of the country, forces align to seek momentous outcomes. Shapeshifter Antoninu Florian, agent of equilibrium, joins forces with Maroussia Shaumian and former police inspector Vissarion Lom, two enemies of the state. Vlast Commander Lavrentina Chazia, supremely convinced of her innate suitability to wield power in the vacuum left by the recent death of the country s ruler, wants to find Maroussia and use her connection to the reality-changing Pollandore in a battle to control reality and history. And terrorist Josef Kantor reinvents himself as Defense Commissar Rizhin, devoted to the preservation of the city. Readers enrapt in the multiple sweeping story lines may find the exciting climax comes all too soon.
