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He’s lucky to be alive. That’s what everyone tells him. Except Tristopolitan police lieutenant Donal Riordan doesn’t feel lucky and he isn’t really alive. In one horrific moment not even death can erase from memory, Donal lost the woman he loved even as her ultimate sacrifice saved his life. Now it’s literally her heart that beats in his chest and her murder that Donal “lives” to avenge.
While being a zombie cop has its upsides—including inhuman reaction time and razor-sharp senses—Donal’s new undead status makes him the target of Tristopolis’s powerful Unity Party, whose startling rise to power is built on a platform of antizombie paranoia and persecution. The Party is no friend, to be sure—but it’s the secret cabal known as the Black Circle and their stranglehold on the city’s elite that consume Donal’s black heart. For at the center of this ring of evil is the man responsible for his lover’s murder—a man Donal has already had to kill once before.
Now, with ominous reports of white wolf sightings throughout the city and a dangerous sabotage attempt at police headquarters, all signs indicate that the Black Circle is planning a magical coup d’état. And the terror will begin with a political assassination triggered by a necroninja already hidden… in a place no one expects.
For Donal, it’s no longer a matter of life and death but something far more serious. How can he stop a killer who won’t stay dead and an evil that death only makes stronger?
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- ISBN: 9780553906141
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January 26, 2009
Meaney’s ambitious sequel to 2008’s Bone Song
makes a successful and welcome shift from ambience and world-building to character and plot development. The gloomy city of Tristopolis is powered by necrofusion, energy produced from incinerating the physical and spiritual remains of the dead. Donal Riordan, a recently murdered Tristopolis police lieutenant now a zombie, is tasked with exposing a powerful cabal of conspirators known as the Black Circle while also trying to track down those responsible for the death of his lover, Laura. As a movement to strip the undead of human rights gains in popularity, the heroic Riordan suddenly finds himself a prime target for a fearful public. The politics and police procedure mix well with a virtual deluge of macabre imagery and symbolism to create a fast-moving and satisfying noir gothic fantasy. -
March 15, 2009
Brought back from the dead and fitted with his dead lover's heart, police lieutenant Donal Riordan has the duty of finding the man who killed both himself and the woman whose heart keeps him alive in a zombie state. This sequel to Meaney's groundbreaking macabre fantasy "Bone Song", set in the same moodily atmospheric necropolis of Tristopolis, a city powered by the bones of the recently dead, features graphic horror and dark comedic touches. A superb addition to adult dark fantasy that portends a long life for the series.Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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February 15, 2009
In this sequel to Bone Song (2008), newly zombified police lieutenant Donal Riordan is determined to find the man responsible for his death. But to find his own murderer, Donal mustpenetrate a secret organization known as the Black Circle, whose fiendish mission appears to be taking over the city Donal calls home (and this could be merely the first step in a far more demonic plot). This is a mesmerizing novel set in an alternate reality in which magic, not science, is the basis of society and technology. This isnt one of those alternate-reality stories in which the world is pretty much the same as ours, with a few minor differences; here, were presented with an entirely new place, rich in detail and atmosphere. Its a place so vividly realized that we soon leave our familiar world behind and take up residence in this new, purple-tinged place with its living undead, its elevator wraiths, its gargoyles and magic-based technology. The story is a solid noirish mystery of dark revenge, but its the settingthis wondrous, rich, imaginative worldthat captures us.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)
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