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When the fearsome Baba Yaga demands an illegal fight to placate a terrifying monster from another dimension, Officer Francis finds himself pitted against deadly foes alongside his allies: the infamous vigilante joker known as "The Infamous Black Tongue" and the ace thief Tesseract. Together they confront a deadly, otherworldly threat inside a brutal underground arena.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: George R. R. Martin
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