Firewalkers

A police investigation threatens to unleash a city’s secret history of evil in the gritty urban fantasy sequel to Firewalk, from the New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of the comic book-turned hit TV show iZombie.

After reopening a long-closed murder investigation, FBI agent Izzie Lefevre and police detective Patrick Tevake have uncovered a bizarre connection between a dangerous new drug on the streets of Recondito, California, and a series of mass murders and serial killings carried out around the coastal city going back at least one hundred years.

Their discovery has unlocked a secret history of mystics and madmen who believed that Recondito is a special place, where it was possible to make contact with beings from other planes of existence, beings best described as demons. For generations there have been those who secretly dedicated themselves to protecting humanity against threats from beyond our world, but Izzie and Patrick realize that their investigation not only eliminated the last remaining defender, but they are now the only ones standing in the way of a full scale invasion.

Chris Roberson is a writer whose novels and short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History. As a comic book writer, he cocreated iZombie, wrote Superman and several Cinderella miniseries set in the world of Bill Willingham’s Fables, and is currently the cowriter of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. He is the copublisher of MonkeyBrain Books and the MonkeyBrain Comics imprint and lives in Portland, Oregon.