{"product_id":"kraken-paperback-2","title":"Kraken - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChina Miéville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this outrageous new novel, China Mi ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about--or prevent--the End of All Things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ebetter known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens--human and otherwise--are adept in magic and murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity--and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC--the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit--a branch of London's finest that fights sorcery \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewith sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city's entrails. There is Grisamentum, London's greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying--yet darkly charismatic--demonic duo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll of them--and others--are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChina Miéville is the author of \u003cb\u003eKing Rat\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003ePerdido Street Station, \u003c\/b\u003e winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; \u003cb\u003eThe Scar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; \u003cb\u003eIron Council\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; \u003cb\u003eLooking for Jake\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of short stories; and \u003cb\u003eUn Lun Dun\u003c\/b\u003e, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227328364793,"sku":"9780345497505","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/N1FRMHQ0OGZReXl0WWtQdDNxRVcrZz09.webp?v=1768279489","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/kraken-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}