BloodtideBurgess, Melvin 

Published in London by Andersen Press, 1999. First edition and impression. Signed by the author direct to the title page, without inscription. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have age toning, owing to the paper used in publishing, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with a little creasing to the edges. Vg- overall. From the prizewinning author of Junk.

In the year 2300 London is in ruins and in the hands of two warring families of gang lords: the Volsons and the Conors. To cement a truce Val Volson offers Conor the hand of his daughter Silivia, to her horror. The wedding is disrupted a mysterious one-eyed prisoner who has been hanging upside down in a glass elevator shaft overlooking the banquet. The superstitious people are in no doubt that he is the god Odin and they watch in terror as he chay