Publisher's Synopsis
Auction City, 1830--corruption, smuggling, and graft run wild in the federal trade district, and no less so a dread of the unnatural. Gangs of resurrection men have forced Ned Tittle--coward, snitch, and procurer of human teeth--out of business at the gallows. One night he makes the best score of a career: a thousand dollars' worth of raw material for the denturist. But along the way he becomes a witness and a target for the entire criminal underworld of the young United States--and for something risen up from hell.
