Christopher Golden - The Shadow Men

Praise for MIND THE GAP

A pitch-perfect blend of fantasy and realism. Golden and Lebbon craft a riveting tale of adventure that is both gritty and magical.

K ELLEY A RMSTRONG , New York Times bestselling author of Waking the Witch

Super-fast pacing and creepy touches [give this] adventure plenty of character.

Publishers Weekly

A dark urban fantasy that posits a world of multiple Londons, some real and some ghostly, an ancient legacy of magic, and a secret war between those who seek power to control it and those who seek to free it Filled with action yet much more than a simple adventure, this tale of the clash between the worlds of magic and science is a standout. Highly recommended.

Library Journal (starred review)

Reminiscent of Neil Gaimans Neverwhere and the classic Dickens Oliver Twist, this book gives the dark fantasy genre a gothic twist with Jazzs adventure.

The Parkersburg News & Sentinel

Magical realism at its finest a light-speed read with mystery, magic, ghosts and a fascinating subterranean world. Great stuff.

SFRevu

Golden and Lebbon do a wonderful job with this book, pulling you in with a strong opening and a likable protagonist in Jazz, and then maintaining the story with an array of mysteries and puzzles, and a cast of engaging characters.

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Golden and Lebbons skills are unquestionable, and the two working together have managed to create a vibrant world just on the outside of ours.

Dread-Central.com

Part fantasy, part mystery, and part suspense story. The authors have done a great job balancing the three elements and braiding them together into one exciting read.

Blogcritics

A contemporary mystery thriller with elements of Oliver Twist, a caper story, and a dash of the supernaturalnamely ghosts, Victorian magic, and steam-punk Spectacular.

Fantasy Book Critic

A modern, supernatural take on Oliver Twist Golden and Lebbon paint an evocative portrait of London, present and past.

Fangoria

Mind the Gap starts off with a bang, throwing you right into the story, and once it takes off running, it doesnt let up. Its moody, highly atmospheric, and pulls no punches in involving the senses as it creates the hidden world of a forgotten, decaying, buried London. A series worth watching.

SF Site

Praise for THE MAP OF MOMENTS

Urban realism meets dark fantasy in this spine-tingling second collaboration between authors Golden and Lebbon as they merge the repercussions of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans terrifying ghostly past. Golden and Lebbon have far outstripped their past efforts with this wonderfully creepy thriller of a ghost story.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Golden and Lebbon vividly evoke the rich, enduring character of New Orleans, as well as spinning a compelling fantasy yarn.

Booklist

Draws from the aftermath of a tragic moment in recent history, telling a dark, gripping story set in a shattered but unbeaten New Orleans Part ghost story, part thriller, it doesnt pull any punches along the way, putting the hero through a physical, mental and spiritual ordeal even as it paints an honest, stark picture of a city just starting to recover from a near-fatal blow. A hell of a harrowing tale [and] a great read, illuminating a time and place in American history that should not be ignored or forgotten.

SF Site

The Map of Moments is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, and its as much a love letter to the city and its people as it is a lamentation for what has been, perhaps irrevocably, lost. Not an easy, comforting read, but it is an alluring, engrossing one, and a wiser, truer book than something simpler could have been.

The Green Man Review

Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon have crafted a love letter to New Orleans in The Map of Moments. Fans of unconventional urban fantasy will enjoy following this map into some very interesting places indeed.

SFRevu

The Map of Moments is a truly haunting look at the dark history and magic to the underside of New Orleans and the ghosts they hide.

The Mad Hatter

Golden and Lebbon do a masterful job of presenting the chase and the discovery of the darkness lurking in New Orleanss history. I ended up reading much of the book at night when the house was quiet, and I think that really lent itself to the overall experience. So if you can get somewhere quiet, with darkness all around, except for your reading lamp, The Map of Moments is a wonderfully creepy experience down streets littered with dead and dark things.

Blogcritics

By Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon

The Hidden Cities
The Shadow Men
The Chamber of Ten
The Map of Moments
Mind the Gap

By Christopher Golden

The Lost Ones: Book Three of the Veil

The Borderkind: Book Two of the Veil

The Myth Hunters: Book One of the Veil

Wildwood Road

The Boys Are Back in Town

The Ferryman

Straight on Til Morning

Strangewood

The Shadow Saga

Of Saints and Shadows

Angel Souls and Devil

Hearts

Of Masques and Martyrs

The Gathering Dark

With Mike Mignola

Baltimore, or, The Steadfast

Tin Soldier and the Vampire

By Tim Lebbon

Novels

Echo City

The Island

Fallen

30 Days of Night

Dawn

The Everlasting

Dusk

Hellboy: Unnatural Selection

Mesmer

The Nature of Balance

Hush (with Gavin Williams)

Face

Until She Sleeps

Desolation

Berserk

Bar None

Novellas

A Whisper of Southern Lights

White

Naming of Parts

Changing of Faces

Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark)

Dead Mans Hand

Piece of Hate

The Reach of Children

The Thief of Broken Toys

Collections

Last Exit for the Lost

Faith in the Flesh

As the Sun Goes Down

White and Other Tales of Ruin

Fears Unnamed

After the War

The Shadow Men is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

A Spectra Mass Market Original
Copyright 2011 by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Spectra, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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eISBN: 978-0-345-52632-8

Cover design: Jae Song
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