Book 2 of The Coil SeriesThe killer writes symbols on his victims and removes their hearts.Manhattan is about to be buried by a nor'easter. As the snow begins to fall, a ritualistic murderer begins his hunt. He earns a nickname fast: the Night Drinker. NYPD detective Nestor Buñuel catches the case—his last before retirement. But this is unlike anything he has worked before.The Night Drinker is driven by obsession with a lost film called 9 Lords of Night—a work rumored to be the product of both genius and madness. As Buñuel is drawn deeper into the killer's cosmology, the boundary between investigation and initiation begins to collapse. Nestor begins to suspect that the Night Drinker's mention of the Aztec lords of the underworld has real substance. And the Lords may be watching.Buñuel moves toward a destiny he cannot escape—a descent into a world where gods are real, where the dead do not rest, and where the price of cosmic meaning is paid in human suffering.What do you do when the case you're solving is also solving you?The Coil Series reading order:1. 13 Secret Cities2. 9 Lords of Night3. Hall of Mirrors
