Stealing Life

It’s Just Another Job, Right?

Nicco Salarum is a thief, and a good one. In the rough-and-tumble city of Azbatha, where every street hustler has an enchantment in his back pocket, Nicco prides himself on using his skills—and the best technology money can buy—to get him into the houses and boardrooms of the wealthy.

But Nicco’s last job went sour, leaving him in debt to a powerful gang boss, and deep in trouble. When a foreign wizard offers him a vast sum for a visiting diplomat’s trinket, he leaps at the opportunity.

But nothing happens in a vacuum. Caught in a game where the futures of whole nations are at stake, Nicco finds himself racing against time to right his wrongs… and save his own skin.

Antony Johnston is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author.

His graphic novel Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City was adapted to film, starring Charlize Theron. His epic series Wasteland is one of only a handful of such longform comic stories in the medium. His first video game, Dead Space, redefined the survival horror genre.

Antony has written more than thirty graphic novels and comic series, including The Fuse, Daredevil, Julius, Codename Baboushka, The Long Haul, Wolverine Prodigal Son, the Alex Rider graphic novels, the Dead Space transmedia comics, and the adaptation of Alan Moore’s “lost screenplay” Fashion Beast.

His video games include Shadow of Mordor, Blackwood Crossing, The Assembly, Dead Space Extraction, Zombiu, and more.

Antony also hosts the podcast Unjustly Maligned on the Incomparable network, and records music under the alias Silencaeon.