Ratking

Ratking
Author: Michael Dibdin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780571270613

Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen had crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.

King Rat

King Rat
Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2000-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466826029

Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Rat—now in a new Tor Essentials edition—a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness. With a new introduction by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat. King Rat reveals to Saul his own royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world for him, the world below London's streets. With drum-and-bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the ones that would destroy him, and those that have shaped his own bizarre identity. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Corpse-Rat King

The Corpse-Rat King
Author: Lee Battersby
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857662880

Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. The dead need a King--the King is God's representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are. Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants to recover his life he must find the dead a King. Which he fully intends to do. Just as soon as he stops running. File Under: Fantasy [ Royal Prospect | Loot | Keep Running | Living Dead ]

The Rat King

The Rat King
Author: Lp Hernandez
Publisher: LP Hernandez
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780578758152

The Rat King is fourteen illustrated adventures exploring horror and its tributaries. Featuring stories adapted by The NoSleep Podcast, this collection will stay with you long after the final page is turned.

Drosselmeyer

Drosselmeyer
Author: Paul Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737249801

Unsure of how he escaped the prison known as Ivanov's Home for Orphaned Boys, Fritz finds himself the newest apprentice in the most powerful Wizard consortium, The Order. After uncovering clues to a decade-old murder, Fritz becomes the unwitting target of someone who wants him dead. To keep him from solving the mystery, they're willing to kill anyone-including Fritz's friends and family. Now Fritz is in a race against time to unravel the clues and unmask the murderer before the next kill. If he has any hopes of surviving, Fritz must unify his fellow group of dysfunctional apprentices and confront the most deadly enemy he's ever known. Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King is book one of the action-packed Nutcracker Trilogy chronicling Drosselmeyer's rise to power and setting up the events in the Nutcracker Ballet.

The Rat King

The Rat King
Author: Patti Larsen
Publisher: Patti Larsen Books
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2024-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 199894820X

Susan’s been having very bad dreams, and without Tucker there to comfort her, she’s afraid something terrible has happened. He’s been ordered to stay in Cat City and do his duty as a gatekeeper, but it feels like the council is trying to keep him from his friend. It turns out Susan’s nightmares are real, however, and when Tucker discovers Susan has been kidnapped by their enemies, he tries to rally help from the cats. But if anyone is going to save her, it’s going to have to be him! With the Rat King ready to attack and an old enemy still plotting to take over Cat City, it’s up to Susan and Tucker to save the cats from their enemy one more time. KEYWORDS: chapter book, action adventure series, kids action adventure book, action adventure books for kids, magic, magic cats, magic books for kids

Ratking

Ratking
Author: Michael Dibdin
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307822516

Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors--if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends? As Zen tries to unravel this rat's nest of family intrigue and official complicity, Michael Dibdin gives us one of his most accomplished thrillers.

Story of Stuart and Bert

Story of Stuart and Bert
Author: Vincent mingzhe Qian
Publisher: Vincent mingzhe qian
Total Pages: 1514
Release: 2024-06-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

It's a story of two lovely squirrels, Stuart and Bert, an adventure journey along with their friends, with detective chapters one after another, stepping their feet into the real world of human jungle with no one there to help. Stuart and Bert need to fight their way back, they have to live and survive, for their loved ones, for themselves. Let's dive right in.

I'm A Bitchy Supporting Actress

I'm A Bitchy Supporting Actress
Author: Mei Wuzitong
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647815851

A fire had transported her to a novel of the apocalypse, and she had transmigrated into a wicked match. In order to change her fate, she decided to design the male lead. Originally, she wanted to become pregnant with Steamed Bun in place of the female lead, but who told her why the man she slept with had changed? Who is this man? Qin Xiaoyue didn't dare to face the reality and escaped. It was fortunate that she was prepared to lead her family and the little bun in her stomach to challenge the apocalypse. The main reason why she designed the male lead was just to stop the killing of the male lead, so if she failed now, would she be able to escape the curse in the book?