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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the 
strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this 
- or any other - year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a 
weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, 
police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about - or 
prevent - the End of All Things.

In the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, 
a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant 
to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux - better 
known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn 
when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.

As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle 
to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose 
existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose 
denizens - human and otherwise - are adept in magic and murder.

All of them - and others - are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently 
holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly 
harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.