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In his third Twenty Palace Society novel, Harry Connolly returns ex-con Ray Lilly to his old stomping ground of L.A. He's been told that his old crew is in mortal danger...and it's all his fault. So Ray heads back home, hoping he's learned enough that his lethal boss Annalise won't need to get involved.

Because once she is, they won't be in danger; every last one of them will be dead.

Product Description: Former car thief Ray Lilly is now the expendable grunt of a sorcerer responsible for destroying extradimensional predators summoned to our world by power-hungry magicians. Luckily, Ray has some magic of his own, and so far it’s kept him alive. But when a friend from his former gang calls him back to his old stomping grounds in Los Angeles, Ray may have to face a threat even he can’t handle. A mysterious spell is killing Ray’s former associates, and they blame him. Worse yet, the spell was cast by Wally King, the sorcerer who first dragged Ray into the brutal world of the Twenty Palace Society. Now Ray will have to choose between the ties of the past and the responsibilities of the present, as he and the Society face not only Wally King but a bizarre new predator.

(Source: Del Rey)