Not much more than a dozen pages into
The Blade Between, the protagonist, Ronan Szepessy, thinks to himself, What the hell happened to Hudson? What the hell happened to Hudson, indeed. That could well be an alternative title for Sam J. Miller s terrific new novel. Substitute the name of any large town or small city (or big city?) in America for Hudson in that sentence, and much (but certainly not all) in Miller s gripping story will ring true. The question remains, just who is besieging Hudson? Hipster invaders? Greedy developers? Fancy shop owners? Or perhaps the disturbed, tortured souls of the whales that were processed there 250 years ago?