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Skyhorse Publishing
March 2015
On Sale: March 10, 2015
Featuring: Jacob Campell; Remington; Leopold l'Eclair
288 pages
ISBN: 194045624X
EAN: 9781940456249
Kindle: B00U7Y5US6
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Fantasy | Literature and Fiction
A decade dead, Jacob Campbell is a preservationist, providing a kind of taxidermy to keep his clients looking lifelike for as long as the forces of entropy will allow. But in the Land of the Dead, where the currency is time itself and there is little for corpses to do but drink, thieve, and gamble eternity away, Jacob abandons his home and his fortune for an opportunity to meet the man who cheated the rules of life and death entirely. According to legend, the Living Man is the only adventurer to ever cross into the underworld without dying first. Itβs rumored he met his end somewhere in the labyrinth of pubs beneath Dead Cityβs streets, disappearing without a trace. Now Jacobβs vow to find the Living Man and follow him back to the land of the living sends him on a perilous journey through an underworld where the only certainty is decay. Accompanying him are the boy Remington, an innocent with mysterious powers over the bones of the dead, and the hanged man Leopold lβEclair, a flamboyant rogue whose criminal ambitions spark the undesired attention of the shadowy ruler known as the Magnate. An ambitious debut that mingles the fantastic with the philosophical, Dead Boys twists the well-worn epic quest into a compelling, one-of-a-kind work of weird fiction that transcends genre, recalling the novels of China MiΓ©ville and Neil Gaiman.
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