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Penny Dreadful, (2000) is the second novel by American novelist Will Christopher Baer. First published by Viking Press.
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To play the game of tongues, you must first understand the caste system….Phineas Poe, antihero of Kiss Me, Judas, returns to Denver from harrowing adventures in Mexico to find that reality has been rewritten and the laws of reason redrawn. When Poe is enlisted by his old ally, Detective Moon, to find a missing cop named Jimmy Sky, he finds himself perilously drawn into the game of tongues, a violent fantasy game played out by disaffected college drones, hacker kids, and goth refugees in underground punk clubs, on rooftops, and in sewers. Everyone he meets has multiple personalities, and before long Poe begins to lose track of his own various identities. If he can hang onto his sanity long enough to find Jimmy Sky, he might just beat the game.
[edit] Characters in "Penny Dreadful"
- Phineas Poe
- Detective Moon
- Jimmy Sky
- Eve
- Goo
- Chrome
- Major Tom
- Theseus
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