The Middle Reaches, Cycle Four: The Army of Ghosts
As chaos and madness spread, gods, monsters, ghosts, and humans are drawn into a final struggle with consequences that reach across the earthly realm and the realms beyond.
The journey that began with a disappearance has expanded into a conflict on a vastly larger scale.
The Middle Reaches Reading Order
1. Shadow Man
2. A Rift in Time and Space
3. The Flood
4. The Army of Ghosts
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If the strange forces, unsettling mysteries, and larger-than-human conflicts of The Middle Reaches are what drew you in, you might also want to explore Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine. Although it shares the corporation MFS and the character Young Torrents with The Middle Reaches, it is a standalone novel, following Lily Henshaw as a series of devastating events lead her to suspect that forces far beyond her control are aligned against her—and that the divine may not be on her side. It offers another route into Cooper’s provocative, unsettling fiction.
SECOND EDITION! On a dark urban highway, bright, introspective thirtysomething Lily Henshaw survives a brutal attack by men who announce that “It’s Crazy Time!” and kill her friends. Months later, still crushed by survivor’s guilt, Lily suffers another serious trauma—and another, and another, and another. She becomes convinced she is cursed like Job from the Bible, but unlike Job, she doesn’t assume God is the good guy. Read more!