num_pages: 320
description: In the more shadowy corners of the world frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between Laytham Ballard is a legend. Its said he raised the dead at the age of ten stole the Philosophers Stone in Vegas back in 1999 and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night hes also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago.Now a promise to a dying friend has Ballard on the trail of an escaped Serbian war criminal with friends in both high and low placesand a sinister history of blood sacrifices. Ballard is hell-bent on making Dusan Slorzack pay for his numerous atrocities but Slorzack seems to have literally dropped off the face of the Earth beyond the reach of his enemies the Illuminati and maybe even the Devil himself. To find Slorzack Ballard must follow a winding treacherous path that stretches from Wall Street and Washington D.C. to backwoods hollows and truckstops while risking whats left of his very soul . . . .
language: English
title: Nightwise
publisher: Tor Books