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When the cards were shuffled, Ellis remembered something his aunt used to tell him when he was a child.
“In the wild, the natural consequence of failure is death.”
He’d respond with, “But we’re not in the wild, Auntie. We’re in a city.”
And to that she’d ask, “What’s the difference?”
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Four years after the Immigration Act of 1920 has allowed monsters into human-only cities for the first time in history, tensions run high, and the death toll keeps rising. One half of The Underground Syndicate has moved in right next to Don Costella, whose crime family has been bleeding Ebott City dry for as long as it's residents could remember.
A single phone call marks the beginning of everything for Ellis Quinn, journalist, charmer, magic-trick enthusiast, and poker cheater extraordinaire. Against all wishes for the world to become a kinder place, he's about to be dropped in the eye of the storm.