The Dead Cat Tail Assassins [Hardcover]

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.

Nor do they have tails.

But they are most assuredly dead.

Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Dj?l? Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.

An NPR Books We Love choice of 2024, Indie Next Pick, LibraryReads Top Ten Selection, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Selection, andBest-Of Book according toBookRiot, and ALA/YALSA Alex Award winner

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassinsresurrected, deadly, wiped of their memorieshave only three unbreakable vows.

First, the contract must be just. Thats above Eveens pay grade.

Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveens a professional. Shes never missed her mark.

The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A
nal death would be a mercy. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveens newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isnt supposed to remember and a vow she cant forget.

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Dj?l? Clark spent part of his childhood in Trinidad and Tobago, the homeland of his parents. He is the author of the novelA Master of Djinnand the novellasThe Dead Cat TailAssassins,Ring Shout,The Black Gods Drums,andThe Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such asTor.com,Daily Science Fiction,Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and inl=