The Dead King - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

When Jack Haley takes on a new patient named Blake, he can hardly imagine the intricate secret that he has stumbled upon. Insanity is Jack s game, his life, and finding the truth is what his job is all about, but the psychiatric facilities of the Hickory House are hiding a truth too strange for Jack to understand. He begins having visions. Dreams. He becomes lost in Blake s insanity before he even delves into it. And here s the truth of what is happening: Jack Haley is being eaten. Devoured by a Dead King.That same King is gathering strength against another man named Thomas Umbra. Umbra is the self-appointed ruler of a huge city set in the middle of a dangerous frontier known as the Wild. It is a planet made up of jungles and power. Filled with creatures so monstrous that most men would collapse at the very sight of them. Thomas Umbra hunts them. He gathers their powers for himself. And he is planning his escape.Filled with odd landscapes, murder, magic, bureaucrats and bounty hunters, this book chronicles the first moments of an exciting time, as the advance of a dark empire is slowed and the forward motion of the truth regains momentum. Will Jack survive? Will Thomas find a way to make it out of his city and onto another planet? Or is the Palace of the Dead King unstoppable?

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