No Man's Land
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 24 Mar 2026
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain that has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon
“One of my favorite books of the year, destined to be a classic.”—Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Lives of The Dead
The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars—and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not risen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet British countryside was swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the Huldu—an ancient fae race, monstrous in their inhumanity, who have decided that mankind’s ascendency over the world can endure no longer.
Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the war, fueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once fought, Duncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a deadly iron knife and a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shot, Duncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen to the arms of their families. No matter how many Huldu he may have to slaughter along the way.
But when he is hired by a mother to return her four-year-old daughter, Miriam—taken by the Huldu six months past and replaced with a changeling—all hell breaks loose. Miriam is a pawn in a much bigger game for dominance than Duncan ever expected, and several long-buried secrets from his past are about to be violently resurrected.
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Like many a classic Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe tale, this addictive hardboiled fantasy from Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Morgan (Altered Carbon) takes its attitude from the disillusionment triggered by WWI. Here the horrors of the trenches haunt the sleepy streets of an alternate post-war Britain that is being rapidly overgrown by a wickedly enchanted forest. Veteran Duncan Silver is a successful "woodsman," a hunter who retrieves children stolen into this forest by the Huldu, elven beings who leave magical changelings in place of kidnapped infants. Hired to retrieve Mimi Rush, Silver soon runs afoul of the Forest Commission, the government department working to fight the encroaching tide of sprite-infested trees. Still, he manages to quickly dispose of the changeling left in Mimi's place, track down the time and place of substitution, and then raid the forest to find her. But Mimi is a captive of Mebhuranon, a queen of the Huldu, and Silver has many other Huldu enemies seeking revenge on him, making his mission especially dangerous. Morgan pits the forces of ancient magic and modern warfare against each other and studs the plot with clever clues leading up to the successful if bitter end of Silver's quest. Readers will be hooked.
