Wolfhound Empire

by Peter Higgins

A spectre is haunting the empire--the specter of war.Huge stone creatures have fallen from the sky, their bodies littering the countryside. Blood-hungry golems are used to fight a never-ending war for political power. Secret police crush insurgency wherever it's found.Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to Mirrored to quell a new rebellion within the city limits. He's been called because he's an outsider. Because he isn't enmeshed in the city's politics. And because of the piece of stone embedded in his forehead.

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy

992 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 6, 2016

About the author

Peter Higgins is a British author. Wolfhound Century and Truth and Fear are published by Gollancz in the UK and Orbit in the US.

Peter's short fiction has appeared in Fantasy: Best of the Year 2007 and Best New Fantasy 2, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Zahir and Revelation, and in Russian translation in Esli.

Reviews

[Chumley Pawkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

A vertiginous journey through a fascinating vision of “another” Russia that, amongst many other things, compresses the timeline of the Russian Revolution and the ascent (and terrifying reign) of Stalin into six years. I’m really not a fan of the fantasy genre by any stretch of the imagination, but this held me in rapt attention from the first page.