num_pages: 272
description: Boro Harkless has devoted his life to the service of the Archonite Bureau of Security the force tasked with keeping the peace among and within the city-states of Old Earth. He comes to the city of Sherit seeking the criminal Luff Imbry. Luff Imbry has devoted his young life to the enjoyment of wealth. A gourmet a charmer and an ever-so-stylish fop he has come to Sherit to pursue a new fortune. Not mind you his own for Luff is also a mountebank swindler and forger of the first water. Yoked together by circumstance they form an uneasy truce and discover a common goal: capturing the grandest con-man of them all Horselan Gebbling. Gebbling who made off with Imbry's previous fortune is posing as Father Olwyn Sacredotal Eminence of the Assembly of Tangible Unity and now claims to cure the invariably fatal ailment known as the lassitude with Black Brillion. But the gemstone is a myth as our heroes know.Filled with dollops of drollery and an ancient evil Black Brillion is a science fantasy caper that grows into a metaphysical exploration of the human psyche. Matt Hughes has crossed Jack Vance with Carl Jung to come up with a bold new novel of life on an Earth grown older by millions of years.
language: English
title: Black Brillion
publisher: Tor Science Fiction