No Man's Land

A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain that has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon

"One of my favorite books of the year, destined to be a classic."--Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Lives of The Dead

The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars--and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not risen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet British countryside was swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the Huldu--an ancient fae race, monstrous in their inhumanity, who have decided that mankind's ascendency over the world can endure no longer.

Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the war, fueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once fought, Duncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a deadly iron knife and a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shot, Duncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen to the arms of their families. No matter how many Huldu he may have to slaughter along the way.

But when he is hired by a mother to return her four-year-old daughter, Miriam--taken by the Huldu six months past and replaced with a changeling--all hell breaks loose. Miriam is a pawn in a much bigger game for dominance than Duncan ever expected, and several long-buried secrets from his past are about to be violently resurrected.

Author: Richard K. Morgan
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.23w x 1.74d
ISBN: 9780345493156


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2025
Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 49
Booklist 10/01/2025

About the Author
Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of No Man's Land, Thin Air, The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Thirteen, Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. His dystopian thriller Market Forces won the John W. Campbell Award; Thirteen, a meditation on genetically engineered humans, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award; and his revisionist fantasy The Steel Remains won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Altered Carbon has been in feature film development since publication and is now a two-season series on Netflix.