Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch The ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.There is a world hidden underneath this great city. The London Silver Vaults—for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a paparazzi convention. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace—only thats what happened. The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light, and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit. Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses Londons tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! And Peter must solve this case soon, because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesnt know is that hes about to encounter something—and somebody—that nobody ever expects… Effortlessly original, endlessly inventive and hugely entertaining—step into the world of the much-loved, bestselling Rivers of London series. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ben Aaronovitch started his writing career in screenwriting, most prominently on the TV show Doctor Who, before becoming a bookseller. He returned to writing with his London-based criminal investigative fantasy, The Rivers of London, which launched the thrilling and wry adventures of magician and police officer Peter Grant. Review Praise for the Rivers of London series "A low-income housing tower gone awry, an old enemy with a bone to pick...and a shocker of an ending—Broken Homes is a delight." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author "The most entertaining book that I have read in such a long time.... Its very funny, its very clever, its very nicely written.... Its such a treat." —Nancy Pearl, bestselling author "This series is a constant joy to read....Ive been looking forward all year to find out what happened next, and the book did not disappoint." —Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library "The prose is witty, the plot clever, and the characters incredibly likeable." —Time Out "Aaronovitch showcases a superlative blend of whimsy and grit in the eighth Rivers of London urban fantasy.... Jim Butcher meets Douglas Adams in this winning series installment." —Publishers Weekly (starred) "Amongst Our Weapons will clearly appeal to the legions of Aaronovitch fans, but those unfamiliar with the series will find a playful mix of the supernatural and the historical within in an intriguing murder mystery." —The Canberra Times"The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter." —io9 "This book is, at its heart, a police procedural with an overlay of urban fantasy elements. The voice is persuasive and funny as all get-out, and the reader is engaged with the narrative from the very first page. Aaronovitch has written a diverse cast of characters who all feel like real people with their own specific motivations. This book is simply wonderful." —RT Reviews (top pick) "The Rivers of London series continues to shine as one of the best and most impressive urban fantasy series with Amongst our Weapons." —The Unseen Library "The Rivers of London is an incredibly addicting series of magic and wonder and mystery with snarky observations by Peter to liven things up." —The Nameless Zine "The most satisfying fantasy thriller to hit bookshelves in quite some time." —SFX Magazine "As always, Ben Aaronovitch takes the reader on an unforgettable ride into the fantastic." —Starburst Magazine "Aaronovitch makes the story sing, building momentum until the ending is literally breathless." —SF Revu Review Quote Praise for the Rivers of London series "A low-income housing tower gone awry, an old enemy with a bone to pick...and a shocker of an ending-- Broken Homes is a delight ." --Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times -bestselling author "The most entertaining book that I have read in such a long time.... Its very funny, its very clever, its very nicely written.... Its such a treat ." --Nancy Pearl, bestselling author "This series is a constant joy to read ....Ive been looking forward all year to find out what happened next, and the book did not disappoint." --Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library "The prose is witty, the plot clever, and the characters incredibly likeable ." -- Time Out "Aaronovitch showcases a superlative blend of whimsy and grit in the eighth Rivers of London urban fantasy.... Jim Butcher meets Douglas Adams in this winning series installment." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) " The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter ." --io9 "This book is, at its heart, a police procedural with an overlay of urban fantasy elements. The voice is persuasive and funny as all get-out, and the reader is engaged with the narrative from the very first page. Aaronovitch has written a diverse cast of characters who all feel like real people with their own specific motivations. This book is simply wonderful. " -- RT Reviews (top pick) "The Rivers of London series continues to shine as one of the best and most impressive urban fantasy series with Amongst our Weapons ." --The Unseen Library "The Rivers of London is an incredibly addicting series of magic and wonder and mystery with snarky observations by Peter to liven things up." --The Nameless Zine "The most satisfying fantasy thriller to hit bookshelves in quite some time." -- SFX Magazine "As always, Ben Aaronovitch takes the reader on an unforgettable ride into the fantastic." --Starburst Magazine " Aaronovitch makes the story sing , building momentum until the ending is literally breathless." --SF Revu Excerpt from Book 1 Airsoft As a rule, we dont get to see the bodies when theyre fresh. Its drilled into every modern copper that our first duty, after protecting life and limb, is to preserve the crime scene from contamination. That means the first plod on the spot doesnt want to let anyone in but the murder team. And the murder team, when they get there, dont want anybody else except the forensics people getting close. They certainly dont want to call in yet another specialist team until theyre absolutely certain they need to. Especially not us-on account of us being the Special Assessment Unit, famed throughout the Met as purveyors of weird bollocks, sudden violent upsets and, worse, poor detection rates. Especially if theyve worked with us before. DI Stephanopoulos being a notable exception to that rule. She was waiting for us outside the entrance to the London Silver Vaults on Chancery Lane on a cold wet Wednesday morning in April, a hefty-looking white woman with sharp blue eyes and resting scowl face. At least I assume that was her habitual expression-certainly it was the one I saw the most. And she was definitely scowling when I tooled up with the Follys latest trainee in tow. "Whos this?" she asked. "This is Danni Wickford," I said. "Shes on the course." That being the Basic Falcon Management Course, an intensive one-on-one jaunt around the world of magical policing with yours truly, so that me and DCI Thomas Nightingale, my governor, could get time off for bad behavior. We refer to magical gubbins as Falcon in the police-all the better to draw a veil of comforting euphemism across the disturbing face of supernatural policing. Danni Wickford was a DC from Kingston CID whose Performance Development Reviews contained phrases like "utterly reliable" and "completely dependable." Dependable and reliable being the qualities that the Falcon Recruitment Committee-that is, me and Nightingale-had decided were what we wanted in a Falcon-capable officer. Physically she was a no-nonsense white woman, skinny, shorter than me with dark brown hair tied up in a French braid, blue eyes, and a pointy chin. Born and raised in Dagenham, she had a proper East London accent but, like me, could cycle through various degrees of middle-class, cockney, and Multicultural London English as the situation required. Stephanopoulos favored Danni with a nod. "Try not to pick up any bad habits," she said. "Ill do my best," said Danni. The London Silver Vaults were originally built as just that-as vaults for valuable items. Shopkeepers used to store stuff there at night, safe inside meter-thick, iron-reinforced walls, and then bring them up to stock their shops during the day. At some point some lazy git asked why they had to schlep all this expensive-but, above all, heavy-metal up and down the stairs each day. Why not just invite the punters downstairs? Safer all round. So the vaults were converted into shops and, voil, London gets its first ever underground shopping mall. Amazingly, Id never heard of it and Danni had had to look it up on her phone while we drove over. "The original surface building was bombed during the Blitz," shed said. Which explained the neo-classical pile that was sitting on the site, now complete with faux-Georgian windows and rusticated masonry faade of the ground floor. At least it was an easy crime scene to secure, with a marble reception desk guarding the main staircase down and the lifts. The cordon officer had simply strung a line of blue and white tape across the doorway leading from the atrium and turfed the vaults security guard out from behind his desk. The cordon officer now sat behind it in his noddy suit, looking like a doorman from a dystopian future. Once hed signed us in the log, we proceeded down half a dozen flights of stairs to a lobby with a coffee machine and a stack of crates with police labels. DS Sahra Guleed was waiting for us at the inner cordon in a low-ceilinged waiting room with a black and cream colored floor and a couple of blue sofas that looked like rejects from the 1990s. At one end, a pair of gray metal and glass cases displayed artfully arranged collections of silver. In the opposite corner was a huge old-fashioned safe with a makers plaque proudly welded onto its front: JOHN TANN-RELIANCE. "Is this the new trainee?" asked Guleed when she saw us. I introduced Danni. "Try not to pick up any bad habits," said Guleed. "Yeah," said Danni giving me a questioning look. "Course." Guleed waved us over to a storage box half-filled with packets of paper noddy suits. She was already kitted out with her hood up, drawn tight so that she could keep her expensive hijab tucked away in her jacket. We shed our coats and struggled into our suits and gloves, and I had to rifle through the cellophane-wrapped packets to find one in XXL size. You nearly always have to go one size up to fit them over your street clothes, and if youre late to a scene you can end up squeaking round in something too small. As we wrestled our way into our suits, Guleed filled us in. "Just after nine oclock this morning an unidentified white male entered the vault, made his way down here, then proceeded to one of the shops and threatened the proprietor. The proprietor hit the silent alarm, but before anyone could respond something happened-we dont know what-and the male was killed." "Something happened?" I said. "Want to guess how much CCTV there is in this place?" asked Guleed. "Want to guess how much of it is still working?" Strong magic damages microprocessors-one of the telltale signs of a Falcon event tends to be the local CCTV getting knocked out. Us police like our CCTV. It makes our job easier, and our only complaint about the surveillance state is that its not nearly as seamless as everyone seems to think it is. Just ask anyone whos had to sit through five hundred hours of grainy video on the off-chance someone in a hoody looked the wrong way at the right moment. Once we were kitted out and as anonymous as stormtroopers, we waddled off to see just what "something" had happened to our victim. The vault proper was guarded by a door forty centimeters thick, with the John Tann maker Details ISBN0756414830 Author Ben Aaronovitch Pages 304 Series Rivers of London Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0756414830 ISBN-13 9780756414832 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-04-12 Series Number 9 Imprint DAW Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-04-12 NZ Release Date 2022-04-12 US Release Date 2022-04-12 UK Release Date 2022-04-12 Publisher Astra Publishing House Audience General DEWEY 813.54 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142433632;

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