Moon Over Soho: Rivers of London Series Book 2 - SIGNED (1st Edition . First Print thus)

Ben Aaronovitch * SIGNED *

ISBN 10: 0575097604 / ISBN 13: 9780575097605

Published by Gollancz, 2011

About this Item

Book is NEW & Unread . SIGNED by Ben Aaronovitch . Front/Back: New . Spine: New . Pages: New . Page edges: New . Jacket: New . First (1st) Printing / Impression: 13579108642 . Year: 2011 .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moon Over Soho: Rivers of London Series Book 2 - SIGNED (1st Edition . First Print thus)
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575097604
• ISBN 13: 9780575097605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: First (1st) Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens' portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives. And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. And maybe once in a career, you're doing it for revenge.

About the Author

Ben Aaronovitch's work reflects his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the 'Capital of the World', where he was born and raised. He works as a London bookseller when he is not writing novels and TV scripts.