WINNER of 2012 Edgar award for Best Paperback Original!
Special Citation of Excellence for the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award!
One of Publisher’s Weekly top 10 anticipated SFF titles of Spring 2010
One of SFGate’s best books of 2011!
A trolley car pulls into the station with eleven dead bodies inside. Four minutes before, the inhabitants were seen boarding at the previous station. All are dead. And all of them are union.
The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built airships that cross the seas. Guns that won the Great War. And above all, the city of Evesden. But something is rotten at the heart of Evesden.
Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must find the truth behind the city before it kills him.
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