Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not readNeverwhere, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaimans adult fiction....American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along. Huffington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling authors ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his preferred textand including his special Neverwhere tale, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back. Published in 1997, Neil Gaimans darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help heran act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwherea London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her familys slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Doors quest to save her worldand may well die trying.