Representing the firm are junior partner Elayne Kevarian and our protagonist, probational new hire Tara Abernathy. When Kos Everburning is found dead by His priesthood, the prestigious Concern of Kelethras, Albrecht and Ao is called in to salvage something of the situation with their Necromantic arts. Its basic plot is: God Is Dead, and His estate is contested. Three Parts Dead is the first book of the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. Much like Tara's revenants back at Edgemont, a being once resurrected was never quite the same. The tension tore her mind to shreds of ectoplasm, leaving behind a body of inchoate divine power that a competent Craftswoman could reassemble into something that looked and functioned like the old goddess. She could not desert her obligations, nor honor them and remain intact. Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.When a goddess neared death, the needs of her faithful, and of those to whom she was bound in contract, stuck like hooks in her soul. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb's courts?and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb's slim hope of survival. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who's having an understandable crisis of faith. Tara's job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.

Without Him, the metropolis's steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.Ī god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.

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