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Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.
A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.
Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.
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I absolutely loved WOLFHOUND CENTURY. Higgins's world is a truly original creation, Russian cosmism and Slavic mythology filtered through steampunk and le Carre. What really captured me was his beautiful style and language: his metaphors and associations flow smoothly like the waters of the Mir, and, like Lom without his angel stone, make you see the world in a new way.
—
Hannu Rajaniemi
About Peter Higgins
Peter Higgins studied
English at Oxford University and Queen’s University, Ontario. He was a junior research
fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and worked in the British Civil Service. His
short stories have appeared in Fantasy:
Best of the Year 2007, Best New
Fantasy 2, Asimov’s Science Fiction,
Fantasy magazine, and Zahir and Revelation, among others. He
lives with his family in South Wales.