Elizabeth Bear - Undertow (epub) - j_ray

A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get
lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change
the future - assuming there is one. . . .

Andre Deschenes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he
can find a teacher who will forgive his murderous past - and train him to manipulate
odds and control probability. It's called the art of conjuring, and it's Andre's
only route to freedom. For the world he lives on is run by the ruthless Charter
Trade Company, and his floating city, Novo Haven, is little more than a company town
where humans and aliens alike either work for one tyrannical family - or are destroyed
by it. But beneath Novo Haven's murky waters, within its tangled bayous, reedy banks,
and back alleys, revolution is stirring. And one more death may be all it takes to
shift the balance. . . .

Title: Undertow
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Published July 31, 2007, by Spectra
ISBN-10: 0553589059
ISBN-13: 978-0553589054
Language: English
Length: 368 pages