Game of Cages
A Twenty Palaces Novel
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4.3 • 32 Ratings
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Publisher Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Harry Connolly's Circle of Enemies.
A SECRET HIGH-STAKES AUCTION
As a wealthy few gather to bid on a predator capable of destroying all life on earth, the sorcerers of the Twenty Palace Society mobilize to stop them. Caught up in the scramble is Ray Lilly, the lowest of the low in the society—an ex–car thief and the expendable assistant of a powerful sorcerer. Ray possesses exactly one spell to his name, along with a strong left hook. But when he arrives in the small town in the North Cascades where the bidding is to take place, the predator has escaped and the society’s most powerful enemies are desperate to recapture it. All Ray has to do is survive until help arrives. But it may already be too late.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Connolly fulfills and sustains the promise of his 2009 rural noir debut, Child of Fire, with this thoughtful Lovecraftian sequel. Catherine Little works for the Twenty Palace Society, a group of lethal sorcerers committed to controlling all the universe's supernatural entities and magic. She contacts ex-convict Ray Lilly at his mundane supermarket job and recruits him to assist her with an emergency situation. Ray's actions are supposed to be limited to assisting his assigned peer, but an interdimensional predator has escaped and the society needs all the help it can get. Connolly doesn't shy away from tackling big philosophical issues whether good ends justify evil means, how many civilian deaths can be justified in the pursuit of creatures that can destroy the world amid gory action scenes and plenty of rapid-fire sardonic dialogue.
Customer Reviews
A the man can write, pt. 2
Adding to my review of the first book, this second outing is every bit as solid as the first. It is thicker in atmosphere, and I found the continuing evolution of our protagonist satisfying. Definitely a keeper.
Great dark urban fantasy
I've read all of these, including the prequel. Highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys urban fantasy, but beware, this is dark and edgy. And I loved every word.
I am hooked!
I liked this one better than the first and I can't wait until the 3rd one comes out!