Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and powers deep in the Earth.
Inspector Vissarion Lom is summoned to the great capital city of Mirgorod to catch the terrorist Josef Kantor. He's been chosen because he's an outsider, impartial to the capital's cruel politics - though not for long.
His investigation opens his eyes to a city teeming with corruption: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, and a conspiracy that extends to the upper echelons of the government.
But Lom soon has other concerns. Nature is turning against the city, and the horrors of war threaten everyone within its walls.
WOLFHOUND EMPIRE brings this incredibly powerful trilogy together for the first time.
Astonishing ... exceptional - Guardian
Well-paced action... This world of a totalitarian state pitted against equally extremist revolutionaries is gripping... a solid page-turner - The Sun
Like vintage China Mieville, but with all the violent narrative thriller drive of Ian Fleming at his edgiest - Richard Morgan
The surprises keep on coming ... but quietly and subtly, like a dreaded knock on the door of an apartment in a brutalist concrete tower block in the dead of night - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Peter Higgins read English at Oxford University and Queen's, Ontario. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and worked in the British Civil Service. His short stories have appeared in Fantasy: Best of the Year 2007, Best New Fantasy 2, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Zahir and Revelation, and in Russian translation in the St Petersburg magazine Esli. His first novel was the acclaimed Wolfhound Century. He lives with his family in South Wales.