num_pages: 523
description: A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings mages and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.The city has always been. The city must finally end.When three thievesan orphan a ghoul and a cursed manare betrayed by the master of the thieves guild their quest for revenge uncovers dark truths about their city and exposes a dangerous conspiracy the seeds of which were sown long before they were born.Cari is a drifter whose past and future are darker than she can know.Rat is a Ghoul whose people haunt the city's underworld. Spar is a Stone Man subject to a terrible disease that is slowly petrifying his flesh. Chance has brought them together but their friendship could be all that stands in the way of total armageddon.
language: English
title: The Gutter Prayer
publisher: Orbit