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Tasked with solving an impossible double murder, detective John Finch searches for the truth among the rubble of the once-mighty city of Ambergris. Under the rule of the mysterious gray caps, Ambergris is falling into anarchy. The remnants of a rebel force are demoralized and dispersed, their leader, the Lady in Blue, not seen for months. Partials—human traitors transformed by the gray caps—walk the streets brutalizing the city’s inhabitants. Finch’s partner Wyte, stricken with a fungal disease, is literally disintegrating. And strange forces are marshaling themselves against detective Finch even as he pursues his one clue: the elusive spymaster Ethan Bliss. How much time does Finch have before time itself runs out?

We’ll be carrying the two limited editions of Finch, taking preorders until April 16, and then placing our order with the publisher.

The Rebel Samizdat Edition comes with:

• A signed custom letterpress printed jacket and foil stamp designed by John Coulthart
• The instrumental soundtrack CD “Finch” by Murder by Death, in custom sleeve
• Secret Lady in Blue rebel radio messages on the front flap of the jacket
• Incoming spy transmissions from the half-human Partial collaborators on the back flap
• The back cover of the jacket provides additional information on the Rebel Samizdat edition, including details of its dual creation in Ambergris and in Portland, Oregon. Special properties of the book cited include its propensity to emit a poison if readers attempt to access secret documents sewn into the spine.

Rebel Samizdat Edition: 350 numbered copies, signed by author

The Heretic Edition comes with:

• The instrumental soundtrack CD “Finch” by Murder by Death, in custom sleeve
• A signed custom letterpress printed jacket and foil stamp designed by John Coulthart (the jacket design is different from the $50 limited version)
• Each jacket includes unique, never-published lines cut from the novel and handwritten on the jacket by Jeff VanderMeer. (This text is different for each of the 150 copies.)
• The flaps and back cover of the jacket will include text pertaining to the inhuman underground gray caps, and excerpted from the journal of the mysterious Samuel Tonsure.
• The back cover of the jacket provides additional information on the Heretic edition, including details of its dual creation in Ambergris and in Portland, Oregon. Special properties of the book cited include its propensity to explode into spores if attempting to tamper with the cloth binding.
• City of Saints & Madman artist Eric Schaller’s infamous war beer label, highly prized in Ambergris for its nostalgic connotations of a time before the gray caps Rose.
• A supplemental chapbook containing seven thousand words of the original “Fragments of a Drowned City” novel that eventually became Finch, with brief introduction by the author. This material, polished and of high quality, constitutes an “alternative” version of the novel that differs completely from Finch as written. The chapbook will not be released in a further printing, and is only available with this limited edition.

Heretic Edition: 150 numbered copies, signed by author