Iron Council (1st ed.)

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mieville's Embassytown.

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mieville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut.

With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzonthis 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 home are pushing the teeming city to the brink.

A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.

In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.

In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon's most dangerous hour, there are whispers.

It is the time of the iron council. . . . The bold originality that broke Mieville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.