No Man's Land: Altered Carbon author returns to detective noir

Richard K. Morgan, best known for his Philip K. Dick Award–winning debut Altered Carbon, returns to a hardboiled blend with No Man’s Land. The standalone novel is set after World War I, when the ancient Huldu ended the Great War by covering much of Britain with a dark forest.

Its protagonist, veteran Duncan Silver, makes a living recovering babies stolen by the fae and replaced with changelings. On his latest case, Duncan must face a thousand-year-old Huldu that forces him to confront his past and pulls him into a complicated power struggle.

The book marries detective noir with faerie horror, threading personal history through a broader supernatural conflict. The excerpt follows Duncan and his companion Garner as they gain entry to Number 17 Tegg’s Road, met by the agent Simon Wilkins.

Britain

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