"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell.Β LexiconΒ reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind onΒ Snow Crash."Β βLev Grossman,Β New York TimesΒ bestselling author ofΒ The MagiciansΒ andΒ The Magician King
βBest thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.β βHugh Howey,Β New York TimesΒ bestselling author ofΒ Wool
Stick and stones break bones. Words kill.
They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.
They'll live to regret it.
They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.
Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.
There's a word, they say. A word that kills.
And they want it back . . .