Hex and the City

Authors: Green, Simon R.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC009060, FIC062000, FIC031070
ISBN: 9781101208335, Related ISBNs: 0441012612, 1101208333, 9780441012619, 9781101208335
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: John Taylor is the name. I work the Nightside. Only in that dark heart of London where it’s always three A.M., where human and inhuman can feed their darkest desires, do I feel at home. Probably because I was born there.
           
What I do is find things—people, objects—and in this case, the truth about the origins of the Nightside.
           
That’s what Lady Luck has hired me to investigate. But the more I dig, the more I discover, not about the Nightside but about the great question in my life: exactly who—and what—was my long-vanished mother.
           
Paying jobs are one thing. Personal quests are another. And I’ve been warned that uncovering the facts about dear old mum could be a very bad thing, not just for the Nightside but for all of existence.
           
Still I can’t stop…I’m John Taylor. Finding things is who I am. It’s what I do. Whatever the consequences…
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