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9780425275986

Half-Resurrection Blues A Bone Street Rumba Novel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780425275986

  • ISBN10:

    0425275981

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-01-06
  • Publisher: Roc
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Summary

FIRST IN A BRAND NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES

“Because I’m an inbetweener—and the only one anyone knows of at that—the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it’s something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn’ta been.”
 
Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead’s most unusual agents—an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that’s missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind—until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death.  
 
One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He’s summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they’re spreading through the city like a plague. They’ve already taken out some of NYCOD’s finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld—which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead.
 
But in uncovering this man’s identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life—and death.…
 

Author Biography

Daniel José Older is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and composer. He facilitates workshops on storytelling, music, and antioppression organizing at public schools, religious houses, and universities. His short stories and essays have appeared in Gawker, BuzzFeed Books, Salon, Chicago Sun-Times, New Haven Review, Tor.com, PANK, Strange Horizons, and Crossed Genres Magazine, among other publications.
 

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