With this outrageous new novel, China MiÂ©ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read thisâ‚¬"or any otherâ‚¬"year. The London that comes to

Kraken: A Novel

With this outrageous new novel, China MiÂ©ville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read thisâ‚¬"or any otherâ‚¬"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 aboutâ‚¬"or preventâ‚¬"the End of All Things.

In the Darwin Centre at Londonâ‚¬s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centreâ‚¬s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxâ‚¬"better known as the Giant Squid. But Billyâ‚¬s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.

As 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 denizensâ‚¬"human and otherwiseâ‚¬"are adept in magic and murder.

There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanityâ‚¬"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 FSRCâ‚¬"the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unitâ‚¬"a branch of Londonâ‚¬s finest that fights sorcery

with 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 cityâ‚¬s entrails. There is Grisamentum, Londonâ‚¬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 terrifyingâ‚¬"yet darkly charismaticâ‚¬"demonic duo.

All of themâ‚¬"and othersâ‚¬"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.
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From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Del Rey
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 9780345497505
Color Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height 9.1
Length 6
Weight 2.20021337476
Width 1.1
ReleaseDate 2011-03-15
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Del Rey
Manufacturer	Del Rey
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780345497505
Color	Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height	9.1
Length	6
Weight	2.20021337476
Width	1.1
ReleaseDate	2011-03-15
NumberOfItems	1

Kraken: A Novel

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