“Wildly entertaining and highly original mélange of northern Minnesota lore and slam-bang near-future SF action . . . Percy’s dead-on local color, strong central characters, and well-integrated flashbacks into the making of a modern samurai will delight and entertain both comics fans and serious science fiction readers. This is an impressive series starter.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

“Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still wouldn’t get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open the core of humanity’s dark heart.”

—MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF

“Whether you choose to think of him as the Elmore Leonard of rural Minnesota or the Stephen King of science fiction, Ben Percy—with his extraordinary and unrelenting eye—dishes up humanity like some kind of otherworldly blue-plate special, at once deeply familiar and wildly new.”

—MARGARET STOHL, NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

“When Benjamin Percy publishes a novel, I have got to read that novel. The Ninth Metal continues his streak of thrilling, incisive genre-bending goodness. It’s a sci-fi novel, a crime novel, and a superhero novel too. Audacious and intelligent and exactly what I was dying to read.”

—VICTOR LAVALLE, AUTHOR OF THE CHANGELING

Praise for

THE DARK NET

“A rare cyber thriller that will keep your eyes focused as you turn pages breathlessly.”

—WASHINGTON BOOK REVIEW

“Percy’s greatest strength—and he has many—has always been his world building . . . those who only know of Percy’s work through his meteoric success in comic books will find The Dark Net to be the perfect crossover work to his novels. Action packed, fast-paced, and incredibly imaginative, The Dark Net is yet another feather in Benjamin Percy’s cap.”

—CRIMESPREE

“Maybe you’ve read it before. But you haven’t read it like Percy can write it.”

—LEWISTON TRIBUNE

“Fast-paced demonic cyber-thriller . . . Percy keeps it suspenseful and compelling from the first page. The authentic Portland, Oregon, setting with a pivotal scene in Powell’s Bookstore is also a draw. Think twice before accessing this on an e-reader, unless you think [you] can handle the extra layer of terror.”

—BOOKLIST

“Percy (The Dead Lands) turns in a fast-paced thriller with crisp, honest dialogue and well-imagined characters. His premise is fanciful yet anchored in believability.”

—LIBRARY JOURNAL

“Written in vivid, often lyrical prose, but with exhilarating comic-book energy, The Dark Net is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader’s heart. Quirky but very human characters confront an explosive emergence of the supernatural into our world in this imaginative, spooky, swiftly paced tale threaded through with dark humor.”

—DEAN KOONTZ, NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR