Half-Resurrection Blues

“Because I’m an inbetweener — and the only one anyone knows of at that — the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it’s something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn’ta been.”

Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead’s most unusual agents — an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that’s missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind — until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death.

One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He’s summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they’re spreading through the city like a plague. They’ve already taken out some of NYCOD’s finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld — which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead.

But in uncovering this man’s identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life — and death...

• Author
• Daniel José Older

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 326

• Series
• Bone Street Rumba

• Publisher
• Roc

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780425275986

• Genres
• fantasy, fiction, paranormal, ghosts, adult, mystery, audiobook, supernatural, horror

• Release date
• 2015