Titan Books has reprinted Web of the City, Harlan Ellison‘s first novel, in paperback and Kindle.

Thanks to Titan Books, we have an exclusive excerpt from Web of the City, which you can read right here below. Take a read from the book and let us know what you think!

Excerpt

Excerpted from “Web of the City”
By Harlan Ellison
Published by Titan Books.
Posted with permission of the publisher.
All Rights Reserved.
Web of the City is on sale now wherever books are sold.

Synopsis

“Get it straight right now: these aren’t kids playing games of war. They mean business. They are junior-grade killers and public enemies one through five thousand…”
In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks. Broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out – but you can’t just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price.

First published more than half a century ago and inspired by the author’s real-life experience going undercover inside a street gang, Web of the City was Harlan Ellison’s first novel and marked the long-form debut of one of the most electrifying, unforgettable, and controversial voices of 20th century letters.

Appearing here for the first time together with three thematically related short stories Ellison wrote for the pulp magazines of the 1950s, Web of the City offers both a snapshot of a lost era and a portrait of violence and grief as timely as today’s most brutal headlines.

Release date: April 2, 2013

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