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Irody can speak to the dead. But the living want him silenced. ‘An engrossing, ingenious story in a beautifully crafted world’ – Adrian Tchaikovsky A Sunday Times bestselling tale of mystery, murder, magic and mayhem from RJ Barker, award-winning author of The Bone Ships. Mortedants can...

I make a living out of screwing over the jerks who capture and torment supernatural beasties. But when I free a bunch of particularly powerful monsters from their cages, I'm not counting on them following me home like lost puppies. Stunningly hot lost puppies, but still. These manly monsters are determined to repay me for my help, and they won't get out of my apartment until they're satisfied we're even.

Barbara Everette has a problem. It seems Janea, Barbara’s assistant and The Foundation for Love and Universal Faith's best operative, has been thrown into a coma by some very nasty magic she’s stirred up. Barbara must track down the perpetrators and break the spell or Janea's soul will be forever lost on the astral plane. Oh, and if she can't break the spell, zombies will destroy all mankind.

Kane Walker hat nach seiner Vergangenheit als Krimineller mehrere Jahre beim Militär gedient und seinen Zwangsdienst geleistet. Seine herausragenden Fähigkeiten haben ihm den Posten des Anführers einer Spezialeinheit eingebracht. Mit diesem neuen Team, dem Thanatos-Trupp, muss Kane auf der ganzen Welt heikle Missionen durchführen, um die Konzerne und die Regierung zu schützen und deren Fehler auszumerzen. Dabei wird sein Können immer wieder auf die Probe gestellt und bis an die Grenzen seiner Belastbarkeit ausgereizt.

An ongoing, episodic "prose comic" from which the pictures are summoned by the magic of words, Goon Squad is set in a version of modern-day Manchester. Its biggest divergence from the real city is that it - along with most other large urban centers - has a team of superheroes to protect it against unusual threats with which the conventional forces of law and order would have problems.

Barbara Everette, a homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house, perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite, toting the kids, running the PTA, teaching kung-fu in the local dojo... perfectly. But perfection has a price, and the day came when Barbara snapped....