Kraken
Subtitle: an anatomy
By: China Miéville
Edition: Del Rey trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Del Rey; Ballentine Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780345497505
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Giant squids; Cults; Magic; Museum curators; Fiction
Description: When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn't know existed: one of worshippers of the giant squid, animated golems, talking tattoos, and animal familiars on strike. Forced on the lam with a renegade kraken cultist and stalked by cops and crazies, Billy finds his quest to recover the squid sidelined by questions as to what force may now be unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
Notes: "Originally published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2010." --T.p. verso.