![]() ![]() Polansky has managed to craft an assured, roaring, and rollicking hybrid, a cross-genre free-for-all that relishes its tropes while spitting out their bones. With TOMORROW, THE KILLING, he tears through the envelope and pushes for horizons yet unseen.", Polansky is a deft, sensitive dramatist with the blackest sense of humor-and LOW TOWN is brilliant proof. ![]() Praise for TOMORROW, THE KILLING:"With THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE, Polansky pushed the envelope of modern fantasy. The one person who left him, broken and bitter, to become the man he is today. And behind them all waits the one person whose betrayal Warden never expected. ![]() A hospital full of lunatics, a conspiracy against the corrupt new king and a ghetto full of thieves and murderers stand between him and his slim hope for the future. But Warden must finally reckon with his terrible past if he can ever hope to escape it. Low Town is changing, faster than even he can control, and Warden knows that if he doesn't get out soon, he may never get out at all. But Warden's growing older, and the vultures are circling. As a younger man, Warden carried out more than his fair share of terrible deeds, and never as many as when he worked for the Black House. ![]() And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all. Low Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. ![]()
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