Wolfhound Empire

by Peter Higgins

Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and powers deep in the Earth.

Inspector Vissarion Lom is summoned to the great capital city of Mirgorod to catch the terrorist Josef Kantor. He's been chosen because he's an outsider, impartial to the capital's cruel politics - though not for long.

His investigation opens his eyes to a city teeming with corruption: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, and a conspiracy that extends to the upper echelons of the government.

But Lom soon has other concerns. Nature is turning against the city, and the horrors of war threaten everyone within its walls.

WOLFHOUND EMPIRE brings this incredibly powerful trilogy together for the first time.

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy

976 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 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.