[A] taut and unique blend of legal drama, fantasy, and noir.
--Publishers Weekly, starred review
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a
just society in a modern fantasy world.
Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has
sent in Caleb Altemoc--casual gambler and professional risk manager--to
cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At
the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner,
Crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.
But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to
worry about when he discovers that his father--the last priest of the
old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists--has broken into his
home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply.
From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance,
as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They
sleep on water, they dance in fire...and all the while the Twin Serpents
slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.
Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning
bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of
fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a
modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.
For more from Max Gladstone, check out:
The Craft Sequence
Three Parts Dead
Two Serpents Rise
Full Fathom Five
Last First Snow
Four Roads Cross
