Couverture / Jaquette

Now in paperback, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up-the Serious Cybernetics Company.

Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son.

Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological-and just as dangerous.

Note biographique

Ben Aaronovitch was born in London in 1964 and had the kind of dull routine childhood that drives a man either to drink or to science fiction. He is a screenwriter, with early notable success on BBC's legendary Doctor Who, for which he wrote some episodes now widely regarded as classics, and which even he is quite fond of. After a decade of such work, he decided it was time to show the world what he could really do, and embarked on his first serious original novel. The result is Midnight Riot, the debut adventure of Peter Grant.

Fonctionnalité

NOW IN PAPERBACK following the initial hardcover release

EIGHTH BOOK in the bestselling urban fantasy Rivers of London series

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: False Value hit #1 on the London Sunday Times bestseller list for fiction the week after its release

STARRED REVIEW from Publishers Weekly praised the novel's humor and charm and drew a comparison to Douglas Adams

WROTE FOR DOCTOR WHO: Aaronovitch was a writer for the internationally popular sci-fi TV show, Doctor Who

BBC TV MINISERIES optioned and planned for production by the company behind the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell miniseries adaptation

GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES for the Rivers of London books launched July 2015 in the UK with Titan Comics

SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO HARDCOVER: Lies Sleeping successfully moved the series into hardcover for the first time in the US

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