From the back: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens - at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world - hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.
Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, lime pits, and a hidden London-beneath-London mere research....or something much darker?
Based on the historical details of Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins - Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-esque rival - Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

Read me and bring me back to the little free library or release me into the wild.