title: Black City Saint
author: richard a. Knaak
description: <i>Black City Saint </i>is first-rate urban fantasy. Richard A. Knaak has mixed myth with real-world history to create a fast-paced, unpredictable story filled with intriguing characters, terrifying monsters, and sinister magic. Readers in search of the next Harry Dresden should join Nick Medea on what is sure to be the first of many adventures.<br /><br />Richard Lee Byers, author of <i>The Reaver, Blind Gods Bluff</i>, and <i>Dissolution<br /></i><br /> <b></b><br /> I LOVE this book! <i>Black City Saint</i>is a delightfully creepy and at the same time jaunty urban fantasy, a wild ride through Chicago of the gangster era in which the pace never flags, the stakes get ever higher, and the reader gets to spend time with a truly engaging, intriguing bunch of characters that I for one want to spend more time with. So, sequels please? Im prepared to beg! <br /><br />Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms<br /><br /> <b></b><br /> Theres a lot to digest in this fast-paced, unpredictable world with a surprisingly well-developed cast of characters, including a lovable shapeshifter, an honest detective in a dishonest city, feirie royalty, and a kelpie made of Lake Michigan waters. Because of many resemblances to Jim Butchers Dresden Files, urban fantasy fans will be hoping for more from Nick Medea.<br /> <i>Booklist</i>      <br /><br /><br /><i>Black City Saint </i>is jam-packed with awesome-- cursed Roman emperors, incorporeal dragons, paranormal detectives, a shapeshifter from the Feirie realm trapped inside a dog's body, and one very tormented unsaintly Christian saint -- all set in prohibition-era Chicago. Knaak's latest is fast-paced and funny, frightening and more than a little fiendish, a brilliant mash-up of<i>Ghostbusters, The Da Vinci Code,</i>and<i></i>the ancient story ofSt. George and the Dragon<i>.</i><br /><br />Brian Staveley author of <i>The Emperor's Blades<br /></i><br /> <br />From the first page of <i>Black City Saint</i> to the last, you know youre in the hands of a creative and expert storyteller. From setting the scenes to populating them with interesting and believable characters, Richard Knaak knows his stuff.<br /> <br /> Mike Resnick, Hugo Awardwinning author of <i>The Prison in Antares</i>
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  ALSO BY RICHARD A. KNAAK
  
  
  
  
  
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  Published 2017 by Pyr®, an imprint of Start Science Fiction LLC
  
  
  
  
  
  _Black City Demon_. Copyright © 2017 by Richard A. Knaak. All rights reserved.
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