Finch

From the Author of Annihilation, now a major Film adaptation starring Natalie Portman. Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award and the Locus Award. AMBERGRIS: 239 Manzikert Avenue, Apartment 525. Two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. Only one is human. Ambergris is occupied, ruined and rotting. Its buildings are crumbling, or mutating into moist and hostile new life forms. The population is brought to its knees by narcotics, detention camps and arbitrary acts of terror. And for motives unknown, the new masters of the city want this bizarre case closed. Now. With no leads and one week to conclude his investigation, Detective John Finch is about to find himself in the cross-hairs of every spy, rebel, informer and traitor in town. And what he discovers will change Ambergris forever...

Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer's novels have been published in fifteen languages and made the year's best lists of, among others, Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, and San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to editing more than a dozen influential fiction anthologies, VanderMeer's nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald. He has worked with rock bands The Church and Murder by Death, as well as PlayStation Europe, on various projects and currently serves as the assistant director of the Shared Worlds teen writing workshop (Wofford College). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann VanderMeer, the editor of Weird Tales.