Redlaw

by James Lovegrove

Overview

They live among us, abhorred, marginalised, despised. They are vampires, known politely as Sunless. The job of policing their community falls to the men and women of the Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive – SHADE. Captain John Redlaw is London's most feared and respected SHADE officer.

But when the vampires start rioting in their ghettoes, and angry humans respond with violence of their own, even Redlaw may not be able to keep the peace. Especially when political forces are aligning to introduce a radical answer to the Sunless problem, one that will resolve the situation once and for all...

Redlaw is New York Times best selling author James Lovegrove at his very best.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907992056
Publisher:	Rebellion
Publication date:	09/27/2011
Series:	Redlaw , #1
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	4.14(w) x 6.78(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

James Lovegrove is the author of nearly 60 books, including the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series, the Redlaw novels and the Dev Harmer Missions. He has produced five Sherlock Holmes novels and a Conan Doyle/Lovecraft mashup trilogy, The Cthulhu Casebooks. He has also written tie-in novels for the TV show Firefly. James has sold well over 50 short stories and published two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, and a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World, under the pseudonym Jay Amory. James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames, All About History and Comic Heroes. He contributes a regular fiction-review column to the Financial Times and lives with his wife, two sons and tiny dog in Eastbourne.

Editorial Reviews

Thriller writer Lovegrove (The Age of Zeus) delivers a plot-driven, action-packed urban fantasy trilogy launch. Armed with a crucifix necklace and his trusty Cindermaker, aging John Redlaw is the “poster boy for the Night Brigade,” aka SHADE (Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive), which is tasked with keeping the peace between London’s vampires and mortals. Like refugees in exile, vamps are warehoused in “Sunless Residential Areas,” camps where the antivampire “Stoker” gangs can’t reach them. But businessman Nathaniel Lambourne is building a new kind of SRA called Solarville that will make his company billions and give him absolute control over the fate of London’s vampire population. Only Redlaw, apparently the only honest cop in SHADE, and his upper-class vampire ally Illyria Strakosha stand between Lambourne and the murder of thousands. The breakneck pace and the mix of crime and horror elements make the story almost as entertaining as it is predictable. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Lovegrove has become to the 21st Century what JG Ballard was to the 20th... - The Bookseller This is the kind of complex, action-oriented fiction Dan Brown would write if Dan Brown could write. - The Guardian on 'The Age of Zeus' Intelligent and provocative, it's yet more proof that Lovegrove is one of the UK SF scene's most interesting, challenging and adventurous authors. - Saxon Bullock, SFX on 'The Age of Ra' It's what I imagine the result would be if Neil Gaiman and Tom Clancy wrote a book together. - Hi-Ex! on 'The Age of Odin' Difficult to put down... a thoroughly entertaining novel that I would recommend to those looking for a summer blockbuster. - Sacramento Book Review on 'Age of Odin'

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