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NAMED AMONG THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY THE L A TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND MARKETERS WEEKLY When a murdered girl can be found in the town of Beszel, anywhere in the side of Europe, it appears to be always a routine event for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Severe Crime Team. Borlú should travel in the rotting Beszel to its equivalent, competing, and personal friend, the lively town of Ul Qoma, to research. But this can be a boundary crossing like no other, as psychic a trip because it is actual, a viewing of the hidden. With Ul Qoman investigator Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on ruining their nearby town, and unificationists who imagine dissolving both into one.