{"product_id":"9781504048309","title":"The Well-Built City Trilogy: The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn epic masterwork about the trials of a man of “science” in a Kafkaesque realm of persecution and paranoia from a World Fantasy Award–winning author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Well-Built City is a hellish place of unrelenting nightmare, ruled with cruelty, oppression, and terror by the inscrutable madman Drachton Below. In his multiple-award-winning, New York Times Notable trilogy, Jeffrey Ford creates a dystopia that chronicles the hubris, downfall, and damnation of a highly placed functionary responsible for determining who will live or die according to their facial structure.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Physiognomy\u003c\/i\u003e: With his unimpeachable authority to condemn and destroy, the pompous, drug-addicted Cley is one of the most feared civil servants in Drachton Below’s Well-Built City. But when the Master himself dispatches him to a remote mining town to recover a stolen object of unimaginable power, events will cause the physiognomist to doubt his science and the reality of his world.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoranda\u003c\/i\u003e: Exiled in the wilderness, Cley’s newfound peace is shattered when his village is struck with a terrible sleeping sickness. Joining forces with Drachton Below’s demon son, Misrix, the former physiognomist must reenter the now-ruined city to find a cure hidden in the insane labyrinth of the Master’s mind.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e: On a journey chronicled by the half-demon Misrix, one-time physiognomist Cley travels deep into a mysterious and dangerous Beyond to face untold terrors as he attempts to right an unspeakable wrong.","brand":"Open Road Media Sci-Fi \u0026 Fantasy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136997474544,"sku":"9781504048309","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504048309_p0.jpg?v=1763711267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504048309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}