TRISTOPOLIS. DEATH'S CITY.

Countless dead lie in the miles of catacombs beneath its streets. And in the necroflux generators that draw out the psychic energies From their bones to power the city, thousands more pay For a life lived there.

But aven a city built on death, a city of living gargoyles, a city haunted by wraiths, has people who make a living From crime.

Lieutenant ロonal Riordan is 8日ロロロロロロ、ood enロレロ

to Find himselF picked out for a job protecting a visiting

Opera Diva. Not good enough to keep her alive.

And now the bones are speaking to Donal. They know him now. He can Feel them. He can taste their song.

Donal needs to Find out who wanted the Diva dead. More importantly he needs to Find out who wants him dead.

John Meaney's new novel is an extraordinary melding of visionary

SF and dark horror. Here is a universe where our darkest dreams are cold Fact, where death is only the beginning.

DO YOU HEAR THE BONES?

John Meaney has re-wired SF.

Everything is different now'

STEPHEN

BAXTER