Clockwork Century #5
Tor
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Featuring: Rector "Wreck em" Sherman
320 pages ISBN: 0765329476 EAN: 9780765329479 Kindle: B0089LOE0Y Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Rector โWreck โemโ Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, heโll be cast out out of the orphanage.
And Wreckโs problems arenโt merelyabout finding a home. Heโs been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. Heโs also pretty sure heโs being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to knowโZeke Wilkes, who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck, since Wreck got him inside the walled city of Seattle in the first place, and that was probably what killed him.Maybe itโs only a guilty conscience, but Wreck canโt take it anymore, so he sneaks over the wall.
The walled-off wasteland of Seattle is every bit as bad as heโd heard, chock-full of the hungry undead and utterly choked by the poisonous, inescapable yellow gas. And then there's the monster. Rector's pretty certain that whatever attacked him was not at all humanโand not a rotter, either. Arms far too long. Posture all strange. Eyes all wild and faintly glowing gold and known to the locals as simpley "The Inexplicables."
In the process of tracking down these creatures, Rector comes across another incursion through the wallโjust as bizarre but entirely attributable to human greed. It seems some outsiders have decided there's gold to be found in the city and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get a piece of the pie unless Rector and his posse have anything to do with it.
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