Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Finch is the latest in a trilogy of novels all set within the city of Ambergris, a once proud metropolis gutted by civil war. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Jeff Vandermeers novel Finch is one of those books. The gray caps, mysterious underground inhabitants, have re-conquered Ambergris and put the city under martial law, disbanding House Hoegbotton, and controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. Publisher: Underland Press, October 31, 2009, trade paperÄescription: A noir thriller/visionary fantasy set in the failed state of Ambergris, 100 years after Shriek: An Afterword. (This design is semi-final, in that a blurb will probably occupy the space under my name.) An interesting fact–John tells me the cobblestones in the picture are from a photo he took while we were walking through Paris together er, sans blood.
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