![]() It's a great lead in to the book, priming the reader for understanding the powers Carter wields, and whetting the appetite through the following expositionary chapters. ![]() Finally corners the spirit in a bar, resulting in a dramatic confrontation. Carter has been chasing an undead man-spirit around the southern U.S., trying to stop an ongoing killing spree. ![]() The opening chapter is a zinger, a fast episode that must have been perfect to workshop. It's a streamlined noir mystery where the investigator, Eric Carter, is a necromancer-oh, and technically, an assassin, as he kills things or people for hire. This particular world still seems like it could use a little fleshing out (groan), but it passed the litmus test of entertaining, a palate cleanser between substantial reads. But I was curious to see how a urban fantasy would handle the idea of death when I saw this book about a necromancer, and what kind of operating system an author might conceive of for the spiritual world. Well, I don't, not really, although I do regularly encounter the dying.
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