The release date for the English version of 'The City & the City' by
China Miéville is May 2009. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad assumes a regular case when a dead lady is discovered in the city of Beszel, on the edge of Europe. However, when he looks into it, the evidence suggests schemes that are deadlier and crazier than he could have ever imagined.
From the collapsing Beszel, Borlú has to make his way to the only city on Earth as peculiar as his own. This crossing of the border is unlike any other; it is a voyage that is both spiritual and physical, a change in perspective, a seeing of the invisible. His objective is Ul Qoma, the affluent and dynamic city that is Beszel's equal, competitor, and close neighbor. Borlú finds himself entangled in a depraved underworld of radical nationalists out to destroy their neighboring city and unificationists who see merging the two into one, all while battling with his own transformation and the Ul Qoman investigator Qussim Dhatt. The investigators start to suspect a reality that may endanger their lives as well as the lives of others they hold dear as they go through the deceased woman's secrets.
The deadly forces in Ul Qoma and Beszel, as well as the most horrifying thing that lurks between these two cities, stand in their way.
A murder mystery elevated to breathtaking psychological and creative heights, The City & the City has echoes of Kafka, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler, and 1984.