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Half-resurrection blues a Bone Street Rumba novel

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FIRST IN A BRAND NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES "Because I'm an inbetweener -- and the only one anyone knows of at that -- the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it's something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn'ta been." Carlos Del...

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Main Author: Older, Daniel José
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Language:English
Published: 2015.
Series:Bone Street Rumba.
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Wizards > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
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Summary:FIRST IN A BRAND NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES "Because I'm an inbetweener -- and the only one anyone knows of at that -- the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it's something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn'ta been." Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents -- an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that's missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind -- until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death. One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He's summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they're spreading through the city like a plague. They've already taken out some of NYCOD's finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld -- which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead. But in uncovering this man's identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life -- and death....
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ISBN:9780698166790
Author Notes:Daniel José Older is an American. He writes fantasy and young adult fiction. His debut novel was Half-Resurrection Blues which is the first book in his urban fantasy series, Bone Street Rumba. His other books include Salsa Nocturna and Shadowshaper. His short stories and essays have appeared in various print and online media. He is co-editor of the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. He also facilitates workshops on storytelling. Formerly he worked as an emergency medical technician in New York City. He is a musician and member of the soul quartet Ghost Star.

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