Bureau 13.Bureau 13 Nick Pollotta Wildside Press Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1989 by John Gregory and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, it has broadened out somewhat 3040 West 8th Street, #200, Waukegan, IL 60085 0809550970 $17.95 www.wildsidepress.com The action-adventure fantasy novel Bureau 13: Damned Nation by Nick Pollotta is an exciting action-adventure fantasy novel set during the American Civil War American Civil War or Civil War or War Between the States (1861–65) Conflict between the U.S. federal government and 11 Southern states that fought to secede from the Union. . Amid the violence and chaos, something hideous is murdering and feeding upon wounded soldiers, leaving behind broken and twisted corpses. President Lincoln orders his trusted U.S. Marshall Joshua Withers withers the region over the backline where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapulae lie just below the skin. fistulous withers see fistulous withers. to stop the terrible deaths. But what could be behind them? Not a vampire, werewolf werewolf: see lycanthropy. werewolf In European folklore, a man who changes into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses, returning to human form by day. or demon--the killer is immune to guns, fire, silver, and Holy Water. Further investigation reveals that killings strike the South as savagely as the North, and President Jefferson Davis also wants the murderer stopped. Something new and horrifically different is on the loose, and battlefield deaths are only the beginning! An entertaining and tongue-in-cheek, if at times gruesome grue·some adj. Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking: a gruesome murder. See Synonyms at ghastly. , fantasy murder mystery with plenty of action. |
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