Philip Nutman - Cities of Night

Deconstruction/Edits: Anya Martin

Philip Nutman is a man of many hats (literally, he has a very cool hat collection). He is a multi-award-nominated novelist for the seminal apocalyptic zombie espionage police procedural novel, Wet Work . An internationally acclaimed journalist who has written over 2,000 articles, he was Fangoria magazine’s British Correspondent for over 10 years. He is an award-winning screenwriter and producer ( Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door ). And he has written and edited over 70 comic books. In 2009, he also became a brand of coffee (we’re not kidding; Philip Nutman’s Wet Work “coffee that’s a shot to the head” is available from www.coffeeshopofhorrors.com).

An English ex-patriate, Nutman has made Atlanta his home since 1993. For more about his work, go to www.philipnutman.com.

Cities of Night © 2010 by Philip Nutman

Frontispiece illustration © 2010 by Mark Maddox

Cover design © 2010 by Erik Mohr

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EPub Edition APRIL 2012 ISBN: 978-1-92685-185-3

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