King of the City
of Michael Moorcock
Series: London Novels #2
Description
Michael Moorcock, returns with the story of the times and trials of Dennis Dover, former rock guitarist, photojournalist, paparazzo, and loyal denizen of Mother London, and his brilliant, beautiful, and socially conscious cousin, Rosie Beck. Since childhood they have been inseparable, delighting in the daily discoveries of a life with no limits. But now a powerful, unstoppable force that consumes the past indiscriminately, leaving nothing of substance in its wake, threatens the metropolis that nurtured them.The terminator is named John Barbican Begg. A hanger-on from Denny and Rosie's youth, he has become the morally corrupt center of their London, and the richest, most rapacious creature in the Western Hemisphere, with but one goal: to devour the entire world. And their only choices left are to join in, drop out ... or plot to destroy him.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date December 3rd 2002
- First Publication 05/02/00
- Language English
- ISBN 9780380795031
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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