Half-Resurrection Blues: A Bone Street Rumba Novel by Daniel Jos Older Paperback Book

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Rent Half-Resurrection Blues: A Bone Street Rumba Novel

Author: Daniel Jos Older

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Roc

Published: Jan 2015

Genre: Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary

Retail Price: $7.99

Ages: 18 - NA

Pages: 336

Synopsis

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.…
 

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