Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence #2) -

Max Gladstone

Tor Books

2013

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780765333124

Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoccasual gambler and professional risk managerto cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.

But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his fatherthe last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terroristshas broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply.

From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire...and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.