Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel - Softcover

Williams, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597801070 ISBN 13: 9781597801072

Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2008

Synopsis

John Constantine meets Chow Yun-Fat in this near-future occult thriller! Detective Inspector Chen is the Singapore Three police department's snake agent - that is - the detective in charge of supernatural and mystical investigations. Chen has several problems: In addition to colleagues who don't trust him and his mystical ways, a patron goddess whom he has offended, and a demonic wife who's tired of staying home alone, he's been paired with one of Hell's own vice officeers, Seneschal Zhu Irzh, to investigate the illegal trade in souls. Political pressures both Earthly and otherworldly seek to block their investigations at every turn. As a plot involving both Singapore Three's industrial elite and Hell's own Ministry of Epidemics is revealed, it becomes apparent that the stakes are higher than anyone had previously suspected.

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Review

“A sleuthing feast for those with a taste for the exotic.” —Publishers Weekly
“Snake Agent combines disparate elements of Chinese mythology, urban fantasy, science fiction and mystery to create a rich milieu and a highly entertaining story.” —Jacqueline Carey, author of Kushiel’s Justice
“This exotic amalgam of police procedural, SF, comic fantasy, and horror is a delight from start to finish.” —Locus 

About the Author

Liz Williams is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England, where she is codirector of a witchcraft supply business. The author of seventeen novels and over one hundred short stories, she has been published by Bantam Spectra and Night Shade Books in the US, and by Tor Macmillan in the UK. She was a frequent contributor to Realms of Fantasy, and her writing appears regularly in Asimov’s and other magazines. She is the secretary of the Milford SF Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing and history of science fiction. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597801070
• ISBN 13: 9781597801072
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 375