Rapture: Bel Dame Apocrypha Volume 3 - Softcover

Praise for Kameron Hurley: God's War "Inventive, challenging, tough as nails-just like its hard-hitting heroine. Recommended."-Joe Abercrombie "Kameron Hurley's a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision . . . burns right through your brain and your heart."-Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch "Hurley's world-building is phenomenal . . .(she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action."-Publishers Weekly "One of the most thought-provoking debuts I've read so far this year."-Locus "If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx... She makes Han Solo look like a boy scout." -io9 Infidel "Especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles."-Tor.com "A fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments, mixed with cynical battlefield philosophy. I highly recommend it."-Strange Horizons Rapture "Ferociously imaginative-with an emphasis on ferocious. . . . smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining."-Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City "Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world that's the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny."-David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens Praise for Kameron Hurley: God's War "Inventive, challenging, tough as nails-just like its hard-hitting heroine. Recommended."-Joe Abercrombie "Kameron Hurley's a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision . . . burns right through your brain and your heart."-Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch "Hurley's world-building is phenomenal . . .(she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action."-Publishers Weekly "One of the most thought-provoking debuts I've read so far this year."-Locus "If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx... She makes Han Solo look like a boy scout." -io9 Infidel "Especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles."-Tor.com "A fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments, mixed with cynical battlefield philosophy. I highly recommend it."-Strange Horizons Rapture "Ferociously imaginative-with an emphasis on ferocious. . . . smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining."-Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City "Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world that's the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny."-David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens

The thrilling conclusion to Hugo Award-winning author Kameron Hurley's bloody, far-future bugpunk debut trilogy, reissued in mass market. After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors. The end of a centuries-long holy war between her country, Nasheen, and neighboring Chenja has flooded the streets of Nasheen with unemployed-and unemployable-soldiers whose frustrations have brought the nation to the brink of civil war. Not everyone likes this tenuous and unpredictable "peace," however, and somebody has kidnapped a key politician whose death could trigger a bloody government takeover. With aliens in the sky and revolution on the ground, Nyx assembles a team of mad magicians, torturers, and mutant shape-shifters for an epic journey across a flesh-eating desert in search of a man she's not actually supposed to kill. Trouble is, killing is the only thing Nyx is good at. And she already left this man to die...