RAW DEAL

The Book

Five days. That’s how long Ellington Thorn has before everything goes to hell — and he doesn’t know it yet.

Post-Myth-War New York is a city where magic runs through the subway lines and the Newbreed work the same streets as everyone else. Ellington works the cracks: a tired PI with a demon riding shotgun in his ribs, a brother-in-law who lives inside a computer, and an ex who carries a badge and a grudge.

When children start vanishing from his old neighborhood, Ellington takes the case. He shouldn’t. The cops are circling. The mob wants him buried. And the demon under his skin is getting hungrier by the hour.

What he finds isn’t a missing-persons case. It’s a magic he can’t unlearn. A killer hiding behind a face he should know. And a war he was warned about, decades ago, on a black-and-white TV — finally walking onto American shores.

By Saturday, somebody dies. He’s been waiting for it.

Noir urban fantasy for readers of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, and Glen Cook’s Garrett, P.I.

About Wolfgang Galindo

Wolfgang Galindo was born in Colombia and raised in Queens, New York — a Dungeons & Dragons nerd since the eighties who grew up to write detective urban fantasy: books about tired men in long coats walking down streets that aren’t quite real.

His debut, Raw Deal, opens the Ellington Thorn series — a wisecracking private eye working cases in a New York where the supernatural pays rent. He came up on Raymond Chandler’s tired-but-swinging detectives and Jim Butcher’s wisecracks-over-trauma urban fantasy, with a little Glen Cook and Ben Aaronovitch in the mix, and set out to write the book that belongs on that shelf.

A 9-to-5 civilian by day, he writes evenings and weekends, and is already at work on the next case.

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What’s Next

Borrowed Time — the second Ellington Thorn novel. Coming 2028.

More worlds in progress — including the epic-fantasy Penumbra series. Join the mailing list to follow along.