Wolfhound Century

Read the Review Here: [URL not allowed] “Very dark, very gritty and very atmospheric. Wolfhound Century is also a book free of genre constraints, allowing for a great original and entertaining read. Top Notch stuff by Peter Higgins.” ~The Founding Fields Every so often you come......more

Received to review via Netgalley There’s something compelling about Wolfhound Century; when people talk about the beautiful style and language, they’re quite right. And the comparisons to Miéville are also, I think, fair. My issue was that it was all weirdly half-familiar — sort of Russian, sort of a......more

Inspector Vissarion Lom is a cop, an incorruptible man frustrated with the oppressive bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the institution he serves, trapped in an unimportant provincial precinct and denied the promotions he thinks he deserves. Josef Kantor is a political revolutionary and a terrorist, utte......more

I picked this up because it was described a being very similar in style to China Mieville. It was - but I don't think it felt derivative at all. It was sort of like if Mieville met Martin Cruz Smith met Philip Kerr. It may sound strange, but I don't think it's a bad thing at all. Set in an alternate So......more

Detektīvs Vissarion Lom negaidīti tiek izsaukts no attāla rajona centra uz galvaspilsētu Mirgorod. Negaidīti, bet varbūt vides maiņa pat nāktu par labu, jo nesen nogalinājis/saucis pie atbildības slepkavnieciski noskaņotu kolēģi. Un kaut arī nozieguma atklāšana pārsvarā uzskatāma par labu lietu, tad......more