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The Searchers: City of Iron [Mass Market Paperback]

Chet Williamson (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)


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Searchers, No 1 August 1, 1998
Laika Harris, Tony Luciano, and Joseph Stein are CIA agents with unique psychic abilities, working deep undercover to expose dangerous frauds that could seriously endanger the national security and psyche. But the disappearance of a New York artist--coupled with a gruesome massacre in an Adirondack mountain lodge--leads the trio into the heart of an unthinkable conspiracy that stretches back millennia and threatens to shatter every belief about the origin of man and God.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 340 pages
  • Publisher: Avon (August 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0380791870
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380791873
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,878,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chet Williamson is the author of over twenty books, the latest of which is The Story of Noichi the Blind. Among his other published novels are Second Chance, Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm, Lowland Rider, McKain's Dilemma, Murder in Cormyr, Mordenheim, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, Reign, The Crow: Clash By Night, and the paranormal suspense series, The Searchers, which includes City of Iron, Empire of Dust and Siege of Stone. He has also written two children's books, Pennsylvania Dutch Night before Christmas and Pennsylvania Dutch Alphabet.

His most recent project was writing the story and dialogue for the computer game, Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders, which can be downloaded at www.bigfish.com. His first play, a psychological thriller entitled Revenant, was recently produced, and he has just finished a stage adaptation of The Story of Noichi the Blind.

His books have been translated and published in many languages and countries, including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan, as well as British editions of several of his novels.

Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. Figures in Rain, a collection of his short stories, received the International Horror Guild Award for Outstanding Collection. He has twice been a final nominee for the World Fantasy Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, and a six-time nominee for the Horror Writers Association's Stoker Award. His work has also been adapted for television, radio, and recorded books. His New Yorker short story, "Gandhi at the Bat," was recently made into a short film and has been shown in festivals worldwide.

Williamson lives in Elizabethtown with his wife Laurie. His son Colin currently works in Seattle as a video game developer for Square Enix.

His website is http://www.chetwilliamson.com


 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars X-Files in the best X-style, March 17, 2000
This review is from: The Searchers: City of Iron (Mass Market Paperback)
Ok, so this book is too much simillar to the X-Files series. But even if the basic idea is not 100% original, the book is excellent in it intention: a conspiracy/super-natural/FBI(CIA) thriller that gasps the reader attention in every one of his 340 pages. That's why I selected 5 stars, because the book is *Very* entertaining. Chet wanted to make it like X-files, and he did it spectacularly.

Worth the read, and I'm looking foward to read the sequel, Trail of Dust.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A wobbly start to a good trilogy., May 11, 2001
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Jim Lay (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Searchers: City of Iron (Mass Market Paperback)
I like Chet Williamson and I trust him as a writer. Having read DREAMTHORP, SOULSTORM, and ASH WEDNESDAY, I consider myself a fan of his. So when I started his SEARCHERS trilogy and found CITY OF IRON to be a bit uneven, I decided to forge ahead. And I'm glad I did. (See my reviews for book two and three.) In this first entry, we are introduced to the three lead characters, all operatives for a covert assignment, investigating paranormal activity. It becomes apparent to the agents that there are other reasons behind their assignment and when they catch wind of a mysterious man referred to as The Prisoner and The One Who Does Not Die, the pace really picks up, for both the characters and the reader. Recommended for fans of The X-Files and horror thriller fans.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great cross-genre novel!!, August 23, 1998
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P. Legerski (Corona, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Searchers: City of Iron (Mass Market Paperback)
CITY OF IRON is going to be, at least a 2 book series. And all I can say about that is, if the second is as good as the first, keep them coming!

The Searchers are a 3 people team doing "shadow ops" for the American government, trying to investigate as many incidents of paranormal occurrence as possible in the name of National Security. While on one of these journey's they come across a seemingly "real" event.

The three "searchers" are Laika Harris, a black female who is the leader and most middle of the road when it comes to believing in the paranormal; Joseph Stein, the eldest and a desk rider for more years than he was an active agent, and also the most non-believer in anything pararormal; and lastly is Tony Luciano, an Itallian Roman Catholic who is a believer.

These three debunk one case while investigating another one that seems real. This is followed by another dual event in which one is proven false and the other appears true. And both second cases are linked they soon discover, which leads them on a chase across continents, history and to the start of the world...or so it seems.

The best attribute of this novel is that all three character's level of belief is challenged and evolving so they are not cookie-cutter cardboard in rigidness. They listen to the others' opinions and choose what is real or unreal that way. The dialogue between the 3 is great, the action scenes unreal and the premise unique and very interesting.

The only problem is with the ending...a cliff-hanger that will be resolved, I hope, in book two titled, TRAIL OF DUST. All I can say is for the second in the series hurriedly arrive and not be the last. A great start to a unique series. Highest Recommendation.

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