Carbon

<p><strong>RELENTLESS POWER. HARDCORE ACTION. A CLASSIC HARD-BOILED VIEW THROUGH A FUTURISTIC LENS. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>In The City government is God-in The Sector anarchy rules.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Most die trying.</p><p><br></p><p>In a world without paper names are earned. Sector-born Carbon once risked everything for a chance to live in The City a world with fresh paper and retinal enhancements that required a price beyond the ability of any Sector-born to earn alone. Captured he entered prison.</p><p><br></p><p>Now released to find a killer whose pattern threatens the government itself Carbon's <em>real</em> search is for the money stashed by his former gang.</p><p><br></p><p>But only one woman knows that location and she isn't willing to trade information unless she gets something in return-her abducted child. The child is somewhere in the Pure Zone a wild place where sorcery works but firearms do not.</p><p>Trapped between hostile worlds Carbon will enter the Pure Zone-hyper-focused and fatal to anyone blocking his path.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This is a fantastic departure for Vachss. Lean as a prehistoric corpse and full of magic without an overabundance of gee-gaws and wizard hats. One of his most original and among his best. And that's saying something. </strong>- <strong><em>Joe R. Lansdale Edgar award-winning author of the Hap & Leonard Series</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Carbon</em> is a stupendous piece of work a genre-busting masterpiece that is a whole new direction in fiction. As astonishing as it is compulsively readable and as always with Andrew Vachss the compassion and empathy for the vulnerable and victimized is heart-wrenching. May be the finest work yet from the master of the art. </strong>- <strong><em>Ken Bruen award winning author of the Jack Taylor Series.</em></strong></p>