Paul Cornell
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| Title | : | London Falling (Shadow Police #1) |
| Author | : | Paul Cornell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | February 25th 2014 by Tor Fantasy (first published December 6th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Mystery. Horror. Fiction. Crime. Paranormal |
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The dark is rising ...Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious, Quill pursues the investigation, co-opting intelligence analyst Lisa Ross and undercover cops Costain and Sefton. But nothing about Toshack's murder is normal. Toshack had struck a bargain with a vindictive entity, whose occult powers kept Toshack one step ahead of the law -- until his luck ran out. Now, the team must find a 'suspect' who can bend space and time and alter memory itself. And they will kill again.As the group starts to see London's sinister magic for themselves, they have two choices: panic or use their new abilities. Then they must hunt a terrifying supernatural force the only way they know how: using police methods, equipment and tactics. But they must all learn the rules of this new game - and quickly. More than their lives will depend on it.
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| Original Title: | London Falling |
| ISBN: | 0765368102 (ISBN13: 9780765368102) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Shadow Police #1 |
| Characters: | Kevin Sefton, James Quill, Anthony Costain, Lisa Ross, Mora Losley, Rob Toshack |
| Setting: | London, England,2012(United Kingdom) |
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This series was recommended to me and I was told that the first book takes a while to get into but otherwise it's great. I actually loved it from the start. Interesting characters & story, great pacing. Loved itReview originally posted at KirkusYou hear stories like that all your life and think: cool, a ghost bus. But now we have to look at this stuff analytically... a ghost bus?! The ghost of a motor vehicle?In London, Detective Inspector Quill is about to bring down drug lord Rob Toshack, the culmination of four years of painstaking work. Toshack is arrested and taken into custody and when he is about to confess to all of his crimes, the unthinkable happens: He dies. It is a bloody, sudden death that
Well... this was a very promising series opener. I wasn't sure what to expect going in to this one, you know, because of that whole "not reading descriptions" thing I do. So the beginning threw me right off and I was confused as all hell for probably the first quarter of the book. But then things started to make more sense, and I found myself quite enjoying this. I liked the characters - they were all pretty well drawn and realistic, and I felt that I was starting to get a feel of who each one
This review and others like it available on my blog.I really enjoyed this once I got past the first 100 pages.Lets talk about those first 100 pages to start with, shall we? The reason they were such a struggle was that they started in the middle of the action. This isn't normally a problem, but it can be when all your characters have the same 'voice'. Now, what I mean by that is that the working-class young black copper 'sounded' exactly the same as the shy, nervous female tech, and the
This strange and gripping urban fantasy was fantastic, with great characters and a complex, intriguing plot.
A real 4 star book, cant praise this enough, really well reseached history of london which is merged in with UK modern policing methods to form a storyline in which keeps you on the edge of your seat.This is what urban fantasy is all about, the author can hold his own with the other authors who use London like Ben Aaronovitch and Benedict Jacka with his own writing style.will appeal to non fantasy readers who love police based stories.
Holy.Fucking.Shit.Like Hellblazer crossed with Peter Grant crossed with--I dunno, all sorts of strange fantasms and philosophies. It started badly--in fact, for the first 20% I didn't like any of the characters, nor did I care about the plot. But then it transitions from a normal undercover investigation of a London mob boss and becomes something weird and horrible and haunting. By the end I was flat out cheering at bits, and chortling out loud, and gasping. This story grabbed me by my brain and
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