Two Serpents Rise

In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoccasual gambler and professional risk managerto cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, Crazy Mal,whoeasily outpaces him.But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job securityto worry about when hediscovers that his fatherthe last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terroristshas broken intohis homeand is wanted in connection to theattacks on the water supply. From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire...and all the while the Twin Serpentsslumbering beneath the eartharestirring,and they are hungry.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) [...]applied.