Empire Box

The human powers have been pushed to the brink, battered, and almost destroyed. The virus they have invented and deployed, their sole possibility for victory, seems to be too little, too late. Its usage has only spurred the enemy to quicker action, to finish the war before they have to deal with its effects. But the humans do not know that the Highborn are faced on another front, by a race they know little about but have battled for two centuries.

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

Für das beliebte Online-Spiel Realm of Arkon ist ein neues Update erschienen. Mit Patch 17 ist die virtuelle Realität in den Spielkapseln nun nicht mehr von der realen Welt zu unterscheiden. Aber der Traum eines jeden Spielers wird für Roman Kozhevnikov zum Albtraum, als er gegen seinen Willen auf Arkon eingesperrt wird. Und nicht nur auf Arkon, sondern auch im tödlichsten Abschnitt - den Dämonengründen.

The Alienist meets the magical mystery of The Ninth House as W. M. Akers returns with the third book in his critically acclaimed Jazz Age fantasy series set in the dangerous Westside of New York City, following private detective Gilda Carr’s hunt for the truth—one tiny mystery at a time...