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Peter Higgins

Biography

Peter Higgins

Peter Higgins read English at Oxford University and Queen's, Ontario. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and worked in the British Civil Service. His short stories have appeared in Fantasy: Best of the Year 2007, Best New Fantasy 2, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Zahir and Revelation, and in Russian translation in the St. Petersburg magazine Esli. He lives with his family in South Wales.

Peter Higgins

Books by Peter Higgins

by Peter Higgins - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

The Vlast stands 200 feet tall, 4,000 tons of steel ready to be flung upwards on the fire of atom bombs. Ready to take the dream of President-Commander of the New Vlast General, Osip Rizhin, beyond the bounds of this world. But not everyone shares this vision. Vissarion Lom and Maroussia Shaumian have not reached the end of their story, and in Mirgorod a woman in a shabby dress carefully unwraps a sniper rifle. And, all the while, the Pollandore dreams its own dreams.

by Peter Higgins - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence, and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city. Meanwhile, the police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains, and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city. But will the horrors of war overtake all their plans?

by Peter Higgins - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.