num_pages: 366
description: Rector Wreck em Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863 but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up and on his eighteenth birthday hell be cast out out of the orphanage.And Wrecks problems arent merely about finding a home. Hes been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. Hes also pretty sure hes being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to knowZeke Wilkes who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck since Wreck got him inside the walled city of Seattle in the first place and that was probably what killed him. Maybe its only a guilty conscience but Wreck cant take it anymore so he sneaks over the wall.The walled-off wasteland of Seattle is every bit as bad as hed heard chock-full of the hungry undead and utterly choked by the poisonous inescapable yellow gas. And then there's the monster. Rector's pretty certain that whatever attacked him was not at all humanand not a rotter either. Arms far too long. Posture all strange. Eyes all wild and faintly glowing gold and known to the locals as simply The Inexplicables.In the process of tracking down these creatures Rector comes across another incursion through the wall -- just as bizarre but entirely attributable to human greed. It seems some outsiders have decided theres gold to be found in the city and theyre willing to do whatever it takes to get a piece of the pie unless Rector and his posse have anything to do with it.
language: English
title: The Inexplicables
publisher: Tor Books