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The route of ice & salt, José Luis Zárate ; translated by David Bowles ; afterword by Poppy Z. Brite

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The route of ice & salt

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José Luis Zárate ; translated by David Bowles ; afterword by Poppy Z. Brite

"It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews. He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have, fantasizes about flesh and frenzied embraces. All this he's done before, it's routine, a constant, like the tides. Yet there's something different, something wrong. There are odd nightmares, unsettling omens and fear. For there is something in the air, something in the night, someone stalking the ship."--Back cover

Route of ice and salt