a night as long as

Jon Snow sits alone on the Night's Watch at Scotland Yard the day after Balon Greyjoy is found dead, floating belly-up in the River Thames. Who put him there and why remains a mystery the Metropolitan police have yet to solve, but that is all forgotten the moment that Alys Karstark walks in from the rain and demands his help, and his gun, in finding her missing fiancé. Daryn Hornwood was a reporter, a man loyal to the North but reckless and due to meet Greyjoy for an interview the morning after he disappeared. Tracing his steps leads the pair deep into the midnight city and into a pit of snakes - and other beasts - all with the same rumour on their lips. Someone wants the Young Wolf dead.