The Ninth Metal Av Benjamin Percy

<p><b><font></b><b>''Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing'' STEPHEN KING </font></b><br><br>It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new.<br><br>They called the comet Cain, after the astronomer who discovered it. It passed 500,000 miles from Earth. We were spared planetary destruction and granted a light show like no other.<br><br>But, one year later, Earth span into the debris field left by the comet and a meteor storm struck. Roads, buildings and even a small town were annihilated.<br><br>The meteors impacted heavily around the dying mining town of Northfall, Minnesota. It was the night of a mysterious double murder, the deed overshadowed by the discovery that the burning remains of the rock contained an unknown substance more precious than gold: the Ninth Metal. And with that discovery, everything changed.<br><br><b>Benjamin Percy is an award-winning novelist, celebrated comic books writer and author of the Wolverine</b><b> podcast. The Ninth Metal is the first of a cycle of novels set in a shared universe.</b><br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Ninth Metal</i>:</b><br><br>''Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of Science Fiction, Percy - with his extraordinary and unrelenting eye - dishes up humanity like some kind of otherworldly blue plate special, at once deeply familiar and wildly new'' <b>Margaret Stohl, No. 1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestselling Author</b><br><br>''Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still wouldn''t get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open the core of humanity''s dark heart'' <b>Marlon James, Booker Prize winning author of <i>Black Leopard, Red Wolf</i></b><br><br>''<i>The Ninth Metal</i> continues his streak of thrilling, incisive genre bending goodness. It''s a sci-fi novel, a crime novel and a super-hero novel, too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read'' <b>Victor LaValle, author of<i> The Changeling</i></b></p>