Conrad A. Williams sold Decay Inevitable to Assistant Editor Mark Newton at Solaris Books. Solaris describes the book as “one of the grittiest modern fantasties ever written, and a masterful dark thriller.” They synopsize the book thus: “Sean Redman is a failed policeman who cannot escape the job. Will Lacey is a husband who witnesses the birth of a monster. Cheke is a killing machine programmed to erase every trace of an experiment gone horribly wrong… Decay Inevitable is a novel charting the grim territories of the shadow line that trembles at the very end of life. These are badlands of horrifying dreams and demons where a black market in unspeakable goods thrives. A race is on to unearth the secrets of the soul… secrets woven into the fabric of death itself.”
Williams won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel in 2007 for The Unblemished. Virgin Books will be reissuing it as a paperback in the UK and the US in April.
Solaris plans to publish Decay Inevitable in early 2009 in both the UK and the US.