92,508 words (≈ about 6 hours)
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.
A revised version of this book (also freely available on Feedbooks, as Beasts of New York 2.0) won a 2011 ForeWord Book Of The Year Award and has been published by the prestigious literary press The Porcupine's Quill.
To learn more, visit the book's web site: www.beastsofnewyork.com… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2007
Published: 2009-01-03
Word count: 92,508 words (≈ about 6 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: urban fantasy, new york city, Central Park, fantasy, animals, quest
Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His novels have won Arthur Ellis and ForeWord Book Of The Year awards, translation into half a dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post.
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, The Night of Knives, and Swarm - under a Creative Commons license; all can be freely downloaded from Feedbooks.
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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:46:37 +0100
A great read! Keeps you hooked and you can't put it down.
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:04:04 +0200
Amazing Author! I loved this book and can't wait to read more of his work. Beasts of New York is definitely action packed and had me hooked from the first chapter.