[From the publisher]: Bursting through the veil of the digital for the first time ever, Matt Wallace's Parsec Award nominated novel – based on the 2006 podcast series that garnered nearly one million downloads – will finally hit the printed page on May 17th, 2013. The House of Murky Depths is proud to announce it will be producing a special limited hardcover edition of the underground sci-fi noir classic that New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler calls, “... an examination of the human spirit, a darkened mirror that reflects the true nature of the struggle, not only for survival, but for civilization.” Told through the revolving voices of eight characters – a street preacher, a back alley negotiator, a hot-rodding master of edged weapons, brother and sister assassins, a pit fighting pulp writer, a reluctant detective, and a Machiavellian femme fatale – THE FAILED CITIES is the story of a divided dystopian metropolis, the humanistic struggles of its citizens, and how their lives intersect over several weeks of intrigue, greed, struggle, revenge, and love that threaten to unravel both halves of a flawed and beautiful whole. Read more: http://www.murkydepths.com/fc.php