Paris, 1925:

HARRY NOLAN is an expatriate American, making a meager living as an illustrator for a low-paying magazine, but his life is upended when he is assigned to illustrate an anonymous article about the death of a god—because a centuries-old French brotherhood, the sauteurs, are determined to suppress the story the article tells. The sauteurs have burned the magazine’s office and killed the editor, and Nolan has the only surviving copy of the article. The author turns out to be a local writer named ERNEST HEMINGWAY, who—at first—tries to distance himself from the article and its lethal consequences.

VIVI CHASTAIN is a rootless 19-year-old orphan who sustains herself by betting on horse races—aided by the spirit of the man she was in a previous life. But now that old identity is crowding her consciousness, threatening to push her own precarious identity into oblivion. It was her alcoholic occasional “stepfather” who told Hemingway the story about killing a god, and the sauteurs are now aware of the story—and of her.

GERTRUDE STEIN is the hub of literary and artistic Paris, and knows many of the city’s supernatural secrets. She has written a book that appears to be nonsense but which can be used to deflect the kind of psychic assault that threatens Vivi, and she becomes a Merlin-like mentor to Vivi and Nolan.

In pursuit of a secret painting by PABLO PICASSO, they learn that the god whose death the Hemingway manuscript describes is Moloch, the child-devouring Phoenician god mentioned in the Bible—and that the sauteurs make sacrifices to Moloch to maintain their reincarnations.

From the narrow streets and rooftops of post-war Paris to, finally, a supernatural battle between gods in a remote village in Spain, Nolan and Vivi contend with forces natural and supernatural, enemies living and dead, and ultimately find themselves pitted against the god Moloch himself—at peril of their eternal souls.

The Mills of the Gods is a harrowing supernatural adventure, full of color, drama, and romance, as only Tim Powers could tell it.

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B.A.D. Company Is at It Again, Their Custom-Engineered Dragons Curbing Ecological Threats—But Are They at Risk of Becoming a Threat Themselves?

Genetic engineer Noah Parker helped domesticate dragons for use as pets and deployed them for the U.S. military. Now his team is tasked with designing dragons to tackle invasive species and other ecological problems, in wildly diverse zones, from the hot deserts of America to frozen wastes of Antarctica. It’s no easy job, especially because government approval requires that the dragons have built-in fail-safes to prevent them from reproducing in the wild. To Noah’s surprise, the approval also requires the presence of an onsite observer—who happens to be his former rival from graduate school.

But as Noah and his dragons race around the globe to counter one environmental disaster after another, problems continue to pile up back home. The longer he is away, the more Noah risks losing the professional and personal worlds he has worked so hard to build . . .

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