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The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die
The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die
The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die
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The world of Gil’s Grimoire... it calls to mind monsters, madness, magic, and mayhem, and just a little bit of zaniness. A little bit. Did you read “Two Zeros and The Library of Doom!” and want more from this wild world? Well, dear reader, you’ve come to the right place!

“The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die” is the true beginning of Gil’s Grimoire, or at least as far as our hero Dylan is concerned. Be with him for his interview and on-the-job training (now with more zombies!), a mind-bending tutorial as he learns the surprising truth about our world (a what? a multiverse did you say?), and discovers firsthand that there are many perils waiting for us in the shadows (no spoilers here, sorry!).

Soon after teaming up with fellow Zeros Gil and Finch, Dylan and the gang receive their first case together: a young woman in trouble. Enter Willa Bascombe, a woman stricken with premonitions, terrible visions of a murder... her own murder, in fact. And at the hands of her darling husband, nonetheless!

Rife with evil monsters, otherworld magic, undead revenants, political machinations, strange science, obligatory vampires, and plenty of camp, “The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die” is the first full-length novel of Gil’s Grimoire.

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Release dateDec 15, 2013
ISBN9781310500862
The Zeros and The Man Who Could Not Die
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Eric Bonkowski

Eric Bonkowski lives in Delaware. When he is not writing, he is listening to jazz and reading.

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