I'm John Taylor. I was born in the Nightside, that square mile in the hidden center of London where it is always the hour of the wolf, where gods and monsters walk side by side and where every dark question ever asked can be answered--for a price.

I left for a while, but I did come back, to make my living doing what I do better than anyone else: finding things--lost or stolen, real or imaginary.

Recently, I found the most dangerous thing of all: the true identity of my long-gone mother. Turns out she's a being who's been around since before the dawn of history. Then, she created the Nightside--and now, for her own warped reasons, she intends to destroy it.

To stop her before she even gets started, I've got to do some hard traveling--back in Time, through endless eons, into the very distant--and probably deadly--past...

Author: Simon R. Green
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 09/01/2005
Series: Nightside Book #5
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 6.76h x 4.24w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780441013197
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Paperback Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 21
Booklist 09/15/2005 pg. 37

About the Author
Simon R. Green is a New York Times bestselling author whose works include the Secret Histories Novels, the Novels of the Nightside, the Ghost Finders series, Drinking Midnight Wine, Beyond the Blue Moon, Blue Moon Rising, The Adventures of Hawk & Fisher, and the Deathstalker series. He lives in England.