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THE LOW ROAD
WOMERSLEY, CHRIS
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Young petty criminal Lee wakes up in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side, a suitcase of stolen money, and
only a hazy idea of how he got there. Wild, a drug-addicted doctor also taking refuge at the motel, is forced by
the proprietor to save Lee's life--and move him out before the police show up. Connected by this twist of fate, the
two strangers go on the lam, becoming the wariest of traveling companions. As the two men reflect on how they
arrived at this point in their lives, the past pursues them in the form of an aging gangster determined to retrieve
Lee's suitcase of money--and punish him for the theft.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
SILVEROAK 256 PAGES
9781402798634
$17.95 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
LUCK OF THE DRAW
ANTHONY, PIERS
An exciting new adventure in the land of Xanth.
FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 20,000
TOR 352 PAGES
9780765331359 SERIES: XANTH
$29.99 HC
DECEMBER 2012
LUMINOUS CHAOS
VALTAT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
It's 1907 in the icily beautiful New Venice, and the hero of the city's liberation, Brentford Orsini, has been
deposed by his arch-rival -- who immediately assigns Brentford and his friends on a dangerous diplomatic
mission to Paris. So, Brentford recruits his old friend and louche counterpart, Gabriel d'Allier, underground
chanteuse and suffragette Lillian Lake, and the mysterious Blankbate--former Foreign Legionnaire and leader of
the Scavengers, the city's garbage collecting cult--and others, for the mission. But their mode of transportation-the
untested "transaerian psychomotive"--proves faulty and they find themselves transported back in time to
Paris 1895 ... before New Venice even existed. What's more, it's a Paris experiencing an unprecedented and
crushingly harsh winter. They soon find themselves involved with some of the city's seediest, most fascinating
inhabitants. But between attending soirees at Mallarmé's house, drinking absinthe with Proust, trying to wrestle
secrets out of mesmerists, and making fun of the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower, they also find that Paris is a city
full of intrigue, suspicion, and danger. For example, are the anarchists they encounter who are plotting to bomb
the still-under construction Sacre Coeur church also the future founders of New Venice? And why are they trying
to kill them?
FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 30,000
MELVILLE HOUSE 416 PAGES
9781612191416 SERIES: MYSTERIES OF NEW VENICE
$24.95 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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