The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in
this novel of gods, games, and monsters
The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place
haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that
is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present long enough to ensure
that it has a future. Street magician Jude Dubuisson is likewise
burdened by his past and by the consequences of the storm, because he
has a secret: the magical ability to find lost things, a gift passed
down to him by the father he has never known--a father who just happens
to be more than human.
Jude has been lying low since the storm, which caused so many things to
be lost that it played havoc with his magic, and he is hiding from his
own power, his divine former employer, and a debt owed to the Fortune
god of New Orleans. But his six-year retirement ends abruptly when the
Fortune god is murdered and Jude is drawn back into the world he tried
so desperately to leave behind. A world full of magic, monsters, and
miracles. A world where he must find out who is responsible for the
Fortune god's death, uncover the plot that threatens the city's soul,
and discover what his talent for lost things has always been trying to
show him: what it means to be his father's son.