num_pages: 288
description: With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters a richly evoked setting and a playful and highly literate style this is a literary fantasy from the author of 'The Somnambulist'.In an earlier century Queen Victoria made a Faustian bargain signing London and all its souls away to a nefarious inhuman entity. Now generations later the bill has finally come due.An amiable unambitious London file clerk Henry Lamb leads an unremarkable lifeuntil the day he learns he's expected to assume the covert responsibilities of his universally despised now comatose grandfather. London is at war and a shadowy organization known (to a very few) as the Directorate wishes to recruit Henry to the cause. All he has to do is find the girl save the world from the monster Leviathan and defeat the unspeakable evil lurking in the cellar of 10 Downing Street: the serial-slaying schoolboy twins known as the Domino Men.
language: English
title: The Domino Men
publisher: Gollancz