An Ellington Thorn Novel · Book One
RAW DEAL
Five days. One demon. No way out.
by Wolfgang Galindo
Coming October 2, 2026 — Get the Release AlertThe Book
Five days. That’s how long Ellington Thorn has before everything goes to hell — and he doesn’t know it yet.
Post-Myth-War New York is a city where magic runs through the subway lines and the Newbreed work the same streets as everyone else. Ellington works the cracks: a tired PI with a demon riding shotgun in his ribs, a brother-in-law who lives inside a computer, and an ex who carries a badge and a grudge.
When children start vanishing from his old neighborhood, Ellington takes the case. He shouldn’t. The cops are circling. The mob wants him buried. And the demon under his skin is getting hungrier by the hour.
What he finds isn’t a missing-persons case. It’s a magic he can’t unlearn. A killer hiding behind a face he should know. And a war he was warned about, decades ago, on a black-and-white TV — finally walking onto American shores.
By Saturday, somebody dies. He’s been waiting for it.
Noir urban fantasy for readers of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, and Glen Cook’s Garrett, P.I.
About Wolfgang Galindo
Wolfgang Galindo was born in Colombia and raised in Queens, New York. A Dungeons & Dragons nerd since the eighties, he writes detective urban fantasy and fantasy — books about tired men in long coats walking down streets that aren’t quite real.
Raw Deal is his first novel.
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Borrowed Time — the second Ellington Thorn novel. Coming 2028.
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