The Immune System: A Dewey Decimal Novel

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The Immune System is the explosive final instalment in the Dewey Decimal trilogy. Picking up months after the events of The Nervous System (Akashic, 2012), Dewey finds himself running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices. Ultimately, this puts him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be.

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And so we come to the final volume in Nathan Larson's edgy, spectacular, dystopian trilogy...It is the narrator, his driving prose, his struggles against the darkness, that makes [the books] impossible to put down...Go back to the beginning, read them in order, admire the growth in the central character, be swept up in the details of a city struggling not to die, and mourn the loss of what we have and might so lightly throw away. But if you can't do that, read this one anyway. You won't regret it.
--Reviewing the Evidence

Readers who enjoy noir or hardboiled mystery, dystopian fiction, or gritty urban fantasy should absolutely try the series.
--Killer Nashville, Book of the Day

Nathan Larson's writing style in this book is a lot like the style within Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk--short and somewhat curt sentences that allow the complex and multi-level story to be easily understood and enjoyed. This book is definitely for anyone who enjoys the crude humor of Palahniuk and the fantastical storytelling of Orson Scott Card.
--SLUG Magazine

Praise for the Dewey Decimal series:

The most incredible thing about Larson's novel is just how credible it is...and the prose is perfect, as tweaked and jumpy and memorable as the man known as Dewey Decimal. I'm a Library of Congress girl myself, but Larson's uncannily original fiction deserves its own number within any system of library classification.
--Laura Lippman, author of After I'm Gone

Larson's vividly imagined world and his quirky narrator are likely to win him a cadre of loyal fans.
--Publishers Weekly

Whiplash prose, teeth-gnashing dialogue and post-civilization concepts that make a crazy (amateur) librarian in a pitch-black world a hell of a lot of fun...A good time for fans of the likes of Charlie Huston and Charles Stross.
--Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Nathan Larson is an award-winning film music composer, having created the scores for over thirty movies, including Boys Don't Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, and Margin Call. The Dewey Decimal System and The Nervous System are the highly acclaimed first two installments in his Dewey Decimal crime-fiction trilogy, and are followed by The Immune System. Larson lives in Harlem, New York City, with his wife and son.