The Spider Dance

#2 War in the Dark

Nick Setchfield

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Titan Books
01 September 2019

Fantasy; 19th Century; Dark Fantasy / Grimdark; Occult; Spies / Espionage; Thriller Horror; Supernatural

Series: War in the Dark

A genre-defying page turner that fuses thriller and speculative fiction with dark fantasy in a hidden world in the heart of Cold War Europe.

It's 1954 and Christopher Winter is trying to carve a new life, a new identity, beyond his days in British Intelligence. Recruited by London's gangland he now finds himself on the wrong side of the law — and about to discover that the secret service has a way of claiming back its own.

Who is the fatally alluring succubus working honeytraps for foreign paymasters?

What is the true secret of the Shadowless, a fabled criminal cabal deadlier than the Mafia?

And why do both parties covet long-buried caskets said to hold the hearts of kings?

Winter must confront the buried knowledge of his own past to survive - but is he ready to embrace the magic that created the darkness of Tobias Hart?

By: Nick Setchfield
Imprint: Titan Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781785657115
ISBN 10: 1785657119
Series: War in the Dark
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nick Setchfield is a writer and features editor for SFX, Britain's best-selling magazine of genre entertainment in film, TV and books. A regular contributing writer to Total Film, he's also been a movie reviewer for the BBC and a scriptwriter for ITV's Spitting Image. The War in the Dark is his first novel. He lives in Bath.

Reviews for The Spider Dance (#2 War in the Dark)

Like Jason Bourne crossed with Doctor Strange... A genre-breaking premise. 9/10 - Starburst Weaving his own magic with his artful prose, Setchfield has crafted an elegant yet blazing chase through a paranormal 60s Europe, the nightmare-world of Bond himself. - SciFi Bulletin Epic in nature, and filled with rip-roaring set pieces, The Spider Dance will leave you so engrossed in the book you feel like a fly caught in the centre of its spooktastic web. - Ginger Nuts of Horror While never forgetting to be entertaining, Setchfield shows how it is possible to exceed expectations when ambition is coupled with skill. - Crime Fiction Lover Into this dark and murky world, Nick introduces a myriad of supernatural elements, and the result is a pulsepounding thriller that's hard to put down... Epic sequences full of bloody horror and heart-stopping thrills... For horror fans who like Le Carre on the side- this is a must. - Frightfest Setchfield takes all the terrific stuff from his first novel -- occult world-building, stylish espionage with a side of Bourne Identity amnesia -- and adds greater depth in this follow up - The Frumious Consortium