Iron CouncilFollowing Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon this time, decades later. It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at

like many of his fellow citizens

Cragg and Fidelis are an engaging duo Financial Times

He is the vivisector

and to fight against and kill your own people will never be easy

Ferius Parfax encounters an inmate named Chedran

cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself

That evening he arrives on Aries Island and encounters the writer of the letter - Reginald Mather

Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot

not false imprisonment for murder

There is no evidence

A creature of routine and decorum

atmospheric and yet not wholly a mirage