Dead Men's Boots
core novel 2007 Felix Castor
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (7,959 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780446618724 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's body would be enough for Felix Castor, but life is rarely that simple. A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of an American serial killer supposedly forty years dead, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. With the help of the succubus Juliet and the paranoid zombie data-fence Nicky Heath, Castor just might have a chance of fitting the pieces together before someone drops him down an elevator shaft or rips his throat out. The third Felix Castor novel, which Publishers Weekly and Kirkus gave starred reviews.
Where it sits
- Universe: Felix Castor
- Series: Felix Castor core; position 3 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: M.R. Carey
Notes
- From the series record (Felix Castor): Mike Carey's five Felix Castor novels about a freelance exorcist in a London where the dead have risen.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Felix Castor: position 3 of 6: previous Vicious Circle (2006) · next Thicker Than Water (2008)
- Internal chronology, within Felix Castor: position 3 of 5: previous Vicious Circle (2006) · next Thicker Than Water (2008)
Sources
- Risingshadow (series listing)
- Civilian Reader (Orbit reissue announcement and publisher synopsis)
- Hachette (publisher description, via Raising Readers)
- Risingshadow (publisher description)
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
- Randolph Public Library catalogue (first U.S. mass-market edition)
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