Iron Council

About this book

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar acclaimed author China Miville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzonthis time decades later. It is a time of wars and revolutions conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope. In the blood and violence of New Crobuzons most dangerous hour there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . . The bold originality that broke Miville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.