The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby

August 30th, 2012 by Darren

“A stunning debut novel, well-crafted and grotesquely inventive. With its madcap story, unforgettable characters and fine balance between humour and pathos, The Corpse-Rat King ticks all the boxes. Fans of Joe Abercrombie will love this.” - Juliet Marillier, award-winning author of the Sevenwaters series and Bridei’s Chronicles “Battersby absolutely nails the narrative style, balancing humour and horror, fantasy and felony. It’s another quick-moving, well-written story that amuses, excites, and concludes with some rather deep, and remarkably heavy musings on the subjects of life, death, and the afterlife – or the lack thereof.” Bob Milne, Beauty in Ruins

Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying.

It’s up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.

File Under: Fantasy [ Dead Reckoning | Strange Problems | By Royal Decree | Still Running ]

Cover Art: Nick Castle

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Book Info:

The Second Marius don Hellespont Novel

UK Print

Date: 4th April 2013

ISBN: 9780857662897

Format: Medium (B-Format) Paperback

R.R.P.: £8.99

US/CAN Print

Date: 26th March 2013

ISBN: 9780857662903

Format: Small (Mass-Market) Paperback

R.R.P.: US$7.99 CAN$8.99

Ebook

Date: 26th March 2013

ISBN: 9780857662910

Format: Epub & Mobi

R.R.P.: £5.49 / US$6.99

Other Books in This Series:

1. The Corpse-Rat King (September 2012)

Buying Info:

UK Print & Ebook

Amazon.co.uk | Book Depository | Waterstones | WHSmith

US Print & Ebook

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