New York Times best-selling author China Mieville delivers his most
accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike
any other, real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city
of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case
for Inspector Tyador Borlof the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates,
the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than
anything he could have imagined.

Borl must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth
as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey
as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen.
His destination is Beszel's equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich
and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and
struggling with his own transition, Borl is enmeshed in a sordid underworld
of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighbouring city, and
unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives
uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could
cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma:
and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.
Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984,
The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical
and artistic heights.

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