Product Description

The second volume in a noirish, gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling author otherwise known as Darren Shan. The Cardinal is the City and the City is The Cardinal. They are joined at the soul. When Al Jeery is seconded by The Cardinal from guard duties at Party Central to investigate the murder of a woman at a hotel he little suspects that the dead woman will turn out to be his girlfriend. Soon he is involved in a terrifying mystery that draws in the dead, the city's Incan forefathers, the imposing figure of The Cardinal himself, and the near-mythical assassin, Paucar Wami. Wami is a law unto himself, a shadowy, mysterious figure who can apparently kill anyone he chooses without fear of punishment or retribution. And Al is about to find out that he has a lot more in common with Wami than he could ever have imagined...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14383 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Praise for Procession of the Dead: 'A beguiling read ! a fantastic revelation at the end' SFX 'Explicit, brutal fantasy ! the narrative voice is engagingly cocky and the action races along' The Times

About the Author
D. B. Shan is another pseudonym for Darren Shan the author of two hugely popular series for Children: 'The Saga of Darren Shan', and 'The Demonata' which have been read by millions of people around the world in over twenty different languages. The City Trilogy is his first work for adults. D B Shan lives in Ireland.

Customer Reviews

Very Good Book
Although not an improvement on the first book in the series, it's still an amazing book, and is very close in quality to that. This is helped by the fact that it is a lot longer than the first one, although the story is so intense it flies by. Would definately recommend this to fans of Darren/D. B. Shans work, plus anyone with a general interest in the genre - you won't be disappointed.

Crime Thriller
This is the second book in the re-released "The City Trilogy" which was originally released a while ago and apparently flopped. I never read the original series but unless there have been huge changes then I really can't see why it failed.
This book is a brilliant melding of crime drama and supernatural thriller, what I mean is it has all the grit of a detective novel but it also has slightly mystical/strange things to help poke the plot along and keep it interesting. The protoganist has a few nice revelations to go through which make this book even more interesting than a simple detective book. Overall I'd say if you like "The Dresden Files" then this is something like that except if the ratio of magic-realism is 50:50 in Dresden Files then it's 20:80 here, so it's a lot more believable and it in no way suffers for that.

Excellent read. Nice length on it too.

pretty good book!
Having read all of Darren Shan's other books i knew to expect something fast paced- this is no exception! The plot races through and although the description is a bit sparse in places the twists and turns the plot takes makes it worthwhile. Read the first book in the series first as it is referenced in this book.
The underlying themes in both books seems to be about accepting and embracing the darker side of your personality, there really are no true 'protagonist' figures in these books and you will find yourself warming towards the main characters even though they often do things which would normally turn us against them.
Can't wait for book 3!!