Low Town

by Daniel Polansky

Publication Date April 18, 2026
Genres Dark Fantasy
Pages 354

📖 Summary

Leading a life of crime in a back-alley region of the Thirteen Lands's finest city, the Warden discovers a murdered child and is catapulted back to his former life as a secret police agent before embarking on a dangerous game of deception between his former supervisor and dangerous underworld bosses. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

✍️ Review

It is very difficult to live in Low Town without the drug: the " Fairy Breath” that energizes and anesthetizes at the same time. Misery and delinquency, occult forces, this is the environment where our protagonist lives, a loner, an alpha male who successfully fights his opponents overcoming all kinds of difficulties and wounds. A large fresco of dark color written in the first person, where it is very rare to see a glimmer of good feelings. The guardian, whose name we will never know, must face blood, disease and black magic to arrive at the great disillusionment and final unveiling

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