Lady Joker (Signed by the author)Translated by Allison Markin Powell & Marie Iida Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post War Japan: a poorly socialized genius stuck working as a welder; a demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder; a Zainichi Korean banker sick of being ostracized for his ethnicity; a

Lynda La Plante (1970s Britain)

The Alphas are the elite

virtual reality headsets

a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes

With Tamas and his powder mages presumed dead

James Wolff has been asked to write under a pseudonym by the British government for who 'he has been working for the last ten years

'Sumptuously gothic

Unlike anything Ive read

The man on the other end says his daughter is missing

Two centuries ago the colony ship vanished

He uncovers a crime by a friend whom he - and everyone else - has held in affection

was the Master of the Moor