Marked Cards

Marked Cards A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel

Paperback (18 Mar 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

An investigator teams up with an unexpected ally to expose a sinister organization in the gripping second book of a classic trilogy set in the Wild Cards universe created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones.

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An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. The uninfected are known as nats.

Nat investigator Hannah Davis has discovered the shadowy group of powerful figures that has orchestrated countless attacks on jokers since the wild card virus was first discovered. The Card Sharks have one goal: to purge the world of everyone who holds the virus.

With the help of Gregg Hartmann-once a puppeteering ace politician but now a joker himself-Hannah and her ragtag crew of joker activists must work to expose the leaders of the conspiracy before their plans can come to fruition. But the Card Sharks have a few tricks up their sleeve-and if Hannah and Gregg don't act quickly, every wild carder in the world could pay the price.

Book Two of the Card Shark Triad
CARD SHARKS  MARKED CARDS  SHOWDOWN

Book information

ISBN: 9780593357910
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Imprint: Bantam Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.0876208
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230911
Language: English
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 416g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 26mm