Name: Wolfhound Century
ISBN: 9780316219679

Peter Higgins

Sent to the capital, Mirgorod, to capture a terrorist, Inspector Vissarion Lom finds the city a corrupt world of secret police, revolutionaries, cabarets and lost artists and slowly comes to the realization of exactly why he was chosen for this job. 30,000 first printing.

Wolfhound Century

A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind. The endless forest and its antique folk lore are no concern to Inspector Vissarion Lom, summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown terrorism with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head at the children's home. Lom's investigation reveals a conspiracy that extends to the top echelons of the party. When he exposes who - or rather what - is the controlling intelligence behind this, it is time for the detective to change sides. Pursued by rogue police agents and their man-crushing mudjhik, Lom must protect Kantor's step-daughter Maroussia, who has discovered what is hidden beneath police headquarters: a secret so ancient that only the forest remembers. As they try to escape the capital and flee down river, elemental forces are gathering. The earth itself is on the move.

Janice Hopper

Well, this is a pretty wild book. It takes place in a sort of alternative Russia/Soviet Union. There's all the repressions, terror, anarchist activity, etc. you might expect from that. But there are also giant fallen angels (one's still alive), rusalkas, giants, golem-like creatures, corrupt officials, and a Forest that wants to reclaim the world. 

It's all pretty interesting, and the first volume ends with a lot of action. I've already started listening to the second one.

Wolfhound Century

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