Subterranean Press has just posted the following:
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Robert McCammon -- Announcing MISTER SLAUGHTER for Preorder
We've just posted preorder information for Mister Slaughter, Robert McCammon's third entry in his Matthew Corbett series of historical thrillers. We've kept the numbered and lettered limitations low for such an important book, and expect both to sell out fairly quickly. (We've also promised copies to our regular dealers, making a quick sell through even more likely.)
Head over to the book's page, check out the details, and get your order in if you're of a mind.
Trade: Fully cloth-bound hardcover edition: $24.95
Limited: 274 signed numbered copies, in slipcase: $125
Lettered: 26 deluxe bound copies housed in a custom traycase: $500
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Here's the description of MISTER SLAUGHTER from their site:
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Mister Slaughter
By Robert McCammon
(preorder--to be published in late 2009/early 2010)
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Vincent Chong
Trade: $24.95
Limited: $125
Lettered: $500
Length: 400 pages (tentative)
The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the reader on an unforgettable journey of horror, violence, and personal discovery.
The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely tempting--offer. Their response to this offer will alter the course of the novel, setting in motion a series of astonishing, ultimately catastrophic events.
Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation still in the process of inventing itself. Suspenseful, illuminating, never less than compulsively readable, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, the largest accomplishment to date from one of our most gifted--and necessary--writers.
The Subterranean Press edition of Mister Slaughter is the only version currently under contract. It will be available in three unique editions.
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover
Limited: 274 numbered copies, fully bound in leather, signed by Robert
McCammon, and housed in a custom slipcase
Lettered: 26 lavishly bound copies, signed, housed in a custom
traycase
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