Cherie Priest - The Inexplicables (Clockwork Century 4, epub)[j_ray]

Rector "Wreck 'em" Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of
1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth
birthday, he'll be cast out out of the orphanage.

And Wreck's problems aren't merely about finding a home. He's been
quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping
into his own supply of the sap he sells. He's also pretty sure he's
being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know--Zeke Wilkes, who
almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to
pester Wreck, since Wreck got him inside the walled city of Seattle in
the first place, and that was probably what killed him.Maybe it's only a
guilty conscience, but Wreck can't take it anymore, so he sneaks over
the wall.

The walled-off wasteland of Seattle is every bit as bad as he'd heard,
chock-full of the hungry undead and utterly choked by the poisonous,
inescapable yellow gas. And then there's the monster. Rector's pretty
certain that whatever attacked him was not at all human--and not a
rotter, either. Arms far too long. Posture all strange. Eyes all wild
and faintly glowing gold and known to the locals as simpley "The
Inexplicables."

In the process of tracking down these creatures, Rector comes across
another incursion through the wall--just as bizarre but entirely
attributable to human greed. It seems some outsiders have decided
there's gold to be found in the city and they're willing to do whatever
it takes to get a piece of the pie unless Rector and his posse have
anything to do with it.

Title: The Inexplicables
Series: The Clockwork Century
Author: Cherie Priest
Published: November 13, 2012, by Tor
Language: English
Genre: Steampunk
ISBN-10: 0765329479
ISBN-13: 978-0765329479
Length: 368 pages