They call it the City of a Hundred Rows.
The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights.
Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nick, has to run for his life through the City Below, Thaiburley’s unsavoury basement world. Accused of committing the murder himself, he is pursued by sky-borne assassins, Kite Guards, and agents of a darker force intent on destabilising the whole city. His only ally is Kat, a renegade like him, but she proves to have secrets of her own…
- ISBN10 0857660497
- ISBN13 9780857660497
- Publish Date 26 October 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Angry Robot
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 432
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780857660497