New York Timesbestselling author China Miéville delivershis most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in anenthralling city that is unlike any other - real or imaginedWhenthe body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decayingcity of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routinecase for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as heprobes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, andmore deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work putshim and those he cares for in danger.Borlú must travel to theonly metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like noother. It is a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift inperception, a seeing of the unseen, a journey to Beszel's equal, rival,and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma.With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and1984, The City & The Cityis a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.