Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-10-20
Word count: 82,389 words (≈ about 6 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Categorie(s): Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Mythology, Fantasy, Epic, Contemporary & Supernatural Fantasy
Tags: quest, Squirrels, fantasy, new york city, urban fantasy, epic fantasy, beasts of new york
A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact. Published by the prestigious literary press The Porcupine's Quill.
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Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His novels have won an Arthur Ellis Award, translation into half a dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post. His most recent work is the Vertigo Crime graphic novel The Executor.
Jon's journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Times Of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.
Jon has released four of his novels - Beasts of New York, Invisible Armies, Swarm and The Night of Knives - under a Creative Commons license; all can be freely downloaded from Feedbooks.
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