A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to
spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course
with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the
world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero.
What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. "I absolutely loved it. Catchpenny is
a brilliant book, full of heart and the language is pitch-perfect. If
Elmore Leonard had ever written a fantasy novel, this would be
it.” —Stephen King Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low
by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he’s all but
squandered his reputation as one of the most uniquely talented thieves
in LA. There aren’t many who can do what Sid does. He’s a sly, a
special kind of crook with the uncanny ability to move through
mirrors. And the spoils he’s after are equally unusual. Forget
jewels and cold cash—Sid steals curiosities—items imbued with
powerful mojo, a magical essence gleaned from the accumulated emotion
that seeps into interesting, though often banal objects. That spot on
the carpet where your old dog used to lay at your feet? The
passed-down family heirloom nobody wants but everybody refuses to
throw away? These curiosities are full of mojo, which is both the
currency of the criminal underground and the secret source of magic in
the world. When a friend from Sid’s past comes looking for his help
with an important client, and the chance to pay off old debts presents
itself, Sid seizes the opportunity … as best he can. But the case he
stumbles into is more complicated than it seems, and it portends a
seismic shift in the world, one that will leave no one untouched. As
the fog of his depression begins to lift, Sid sees connections
everywhere he looks, and the once disparate threads of the case—a
missing teenage girl, an entire bedroom saturated with mojo, and
Sid’s own long-dead wife—begin to coalesce.
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Product details
ISBN
9780593685099
Published
2023
Publisher
Random House Digital Inc.
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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