Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mieville returns
with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical
band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon-this
time, decades later.

It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue.
New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy
city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city
to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery
and violence incubate in unexpected places.

In desperation, a small group of renegades
escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for
a lost hope.

In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon’s most dangerous hour, there
are whispers. It is the time of the iron council… .

The bold originality that
broke Mieville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council:
the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps
the edgiest mythmaker of the day.