Limbus, Inc. - Book III
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Limbus saga continues with five more stories of horror, science fiction, and fantasy from some of the industry’s brightest stars – Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Laird Barron and David Liss.
Thomas Malone thought he’d seen it all during his twenty-five years in the Birmingham homicide division. But then they found the body of a woman suspended above the opening of the mineshaft known as the Vertical, blood dripping into the chasm below. At the bottom of that shaft, two clues—a typed manuscript and a business card, blank but for a name on the front and a single sentence on the back.
Malone couldn’t know that those two enigmatic items would lead him on a manhunt around the world, on the trail of a murderer and an organization of myth and legend. But he shouldn’t have been surprised. The business card said it all.
LIMBUS, Inc.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A highly unorthodox employment agency (first seen in 2013's Limbus, Inc.) returns in this shared-world anthology of five hardboiled horror-noir tales from bestselling and Stoker-winning contributors. Whether inspired by Emily Dickinson (Harry Shannon's "Zero at the Bone" ) or Edgar Rice Burroughs (Joe R. Lansdale's "Fishing for Dinosaurs"), the stories feature shattered people offered a chance to recover their lives if they accept the weird and dangerous jobs that Limbus brokers. One helps the victim of a long-cold fatal hit-and-run accident to find justice ("Lost and Found" by Joe McKinney); another gives someone a complete career makeover as a mercenary ("The Transmigration of Librarian Blaine Evans" by Gary A. Braunbeck). The plots threaten to veer out of control, as in Jonathan Maberry's closing short novel "Three Guys Walk into a Bar," in which natural and synthetic werewolves face off, but the combination of humor (Maberry's werewolf ex-cop PI enjoys Downton Abbey) and tragedy will hold the reader.
