The Tindalos Asset
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Publisher Description
The Signalman returns in The Tindalos Asset.
“Her stories saturate the mind with color...There is simply nothing out there quite like her.”—The New York Times on Caitlín R. Kiernan
A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time.
Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight.
Still, you don't say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos. . .
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The exceptional third supernatural thriller in Kiernan's Tin Foil Dossier series (after Black Helicopters) evokes Frank Belknap Long's 1929 story "The Hound of Tindalos" (regarded as the first contribution by another writer to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos) to deliver an audacious tale of earthshaking cosmic espionage. Los Angeles-based "occult assassin" Ellison Nicodemo has become a dysfunctional drug addict after harrowing experiences in the field. Still, the Signalman, an enigmatic officer of a shadow government security agency, taps Ellison to take on Jehosheba Talog, a Welsh woman with prodigious supernatural powers. Kiernan builds on the cosmic horrors of previous installments as Jehosheba's activities on behalf of the monstrous Mother Hydra unleash a tidal wave of uncanny phenomena that tears at the very fabric of reality. Ellison's episodic attempts to stop this tide provide tantalizing glimpses into a deliciously dark world, inviting the reader to envision the broader, more terrifying context in which the events of the story unfold. With this chilling work, Kiernan again proves her mastery of the genre.
Customer Reviews
The Agents of Dreamland Return to Fight Evil
“The Tindalos Asset” is the third novella in Caitlín R. Kiernan’s “Tinfoil Dossier” series. These novellas pit secret government agents against Lovecraftian horrors and their cultist who seek to bring about the end of the world.
This novella is a bit more straightforward than the previous volume, “Black Helicopters.” However, it does tend to jump around in time, so the reader is advised to pay close attention to the dates given at the beginning of each chapter. Even so, I found the narrative easier to follow.
This novella also features the return of the Signalman, the agent from “Dreamland” that was featured in the first novella. It also introduces us to Ellison Nicodemo, former agent, currently a junkie, who is the titular Tindalos Asset.
These two washed-up and wrung out individuals set out to stop a woman who has been born and raised to be the high priestess of Mother Hydra. Can they do so before she wakes things that are best left sleeping?
Like the last two novellas, “The Tindalos Asset”, gives the reader a horrific and gritty look into the world of the cultist and those who seek to oppose them. I’m unsure if this is the final volume in this series of stories, but I hope there might be more files added to the Tinfoil Dossiers in the future.