Enthralling novelist Sean Monaghan throws readers yet another curveball.Crispin Calderton listens to soft piano music in his cool office at tip of CeeVoll 617's spire. A brief respite from governing the million or more people living hardscrabble lives on the floors beneath.Meanwhile, hundreds of floors down, Ernst Marbee finds himself swept up in Abie's explorations. After all, there must be treasures worth discovering in the city tower's labyrinthine structure.What they find, though, might threaten their very understanding of their lives.Another brutal, compelling, high-concept action-adventure from the author of Spin Trap and the Wildest Skies series. Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov's, his story "Crimson Birds of Small Miracles", set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov's Readers Poll Award, for best short story.He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award.Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov's, his story "Crimson Birds of Small Miracles", set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov's Readers Poll Award, for best short story.He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award.Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.
