Bookburners - Softcover

Gladstone, Max; Dunlap, Margaret; Lafferty, Mur; Slattery, Brian Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481485563 ISBN 13: 9781481485562

Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press, 2017

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic--previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time!

Magic is real, and hungry. It's trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad--Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum--and together they stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don't like the label.

Supernatural meets The Da Vinci Code in a fast-paced, kickass character driven novel (previously published serially at SerialBox.com/Serials/Bookburners) chock-full of magic, mystery, and mayhem, written collaboratively by a team of some of the best writers working in fantasy.

About this title

Review:

"Sheer enormous fun!"--Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series

"Recommended for those looking for a breezy, entertaining and exciting fantasy read."--Booklist

"As much fun as binge-watching a full season of a Showtime series."--Publishers Weekly

"[The] breakneck pace never feels rushed, and its balance between the horrifyingly demonic and the hilariously clever never falters."--B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog

"Fast-paced and pulpish...could win a devoted audience and keep going for season after season."--New York Times

About the Author:

Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called "stupefyingly good." The sixth book, Ruin of Angels, was released this September. Max's interactive mobile game Choice of the Deathless was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies such as XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. John Crowley described Max as "a true star of 21st-century fantasy." Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1481485563
• ISBN 13: 9781481485562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800
• Illustrator: Weaver Mark, Veregge Jeffrey