Max Gladstone

“Gladstone's series is thoroughly addictive. Two Serpents Rise mixes gods, card sharps, parkour, artists, water rights, and human sacrifice in a world that has both undead skeleton CEOs and World's Best Daughter mugs.” Tina Connolly, author Ironskin “If you’ve been looking for a different kind of fantasy—part urban, part epic, maybe something in between—you’ll thoroughly enjoy this novel.” Carrie Vaughn, author of the Kitty Norville series In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, Crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him. But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father—the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists—has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply. Max Gladstone went to Yale, where he wrote a short story that became a finalist in the Writers of the Future competition. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Two Serpents Rise is the second book in the series that started with Three Parts Dead.

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Publishers Weekly’s starred review of Three Parts Dead states in part: “In the world of Gladstone’s fascinating debut, gods communicate directly with their followers, and magic —known as Craft — is practiced like law.” Max Gladstone combines legal thriller and steam-powered fantasy in his tale of Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao tasked with resurrecting Kos, the recently murdered fire god of the city of Alt Coulum.

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