From award-winning author Alexander C. Irvine comes a compelling, fantastical riff on history and World War II. The Narrows takes place in Detroit, where Henry Fords factories have been retooled for Americas grand war effort. But there are also more clandestine operations under wayincluding a top-secret effort to produce golemspowerful beings fashioned from the earthto destroy Nazis. Here lurk strange spies in unlikely placesand a not-so-extraordinary man who is inadvertently poised at the bizarre, urgent center of it all. . . . Spared fighting in Europe because of a bum hand, Jared wishes he could join the cause, instead of mindlessly sifting clay to be made into golems. But there is something that preys on his dreams: the devilish dwarf known as the Nain Rouge. In his youth, Jared once actually saw the Dwarfa chilling creature that shows itself to individuals just before their demise. Now the Nain Rouge appears to be coming back for Jared himself.Many have a profound interest in Jareds childhood run-in with the Dwarfincluding a German spy, Jareds hateful foreman at the golem factory, and a shape-shifting Indian shaman. But what could a simple man who earns a meager living possibly have to do with espionage and dark deeds? While Jared toils invisibly in the bowels of Fords plant, the answer is about to reveal itself in a cataclysm of mythic and sinister proportions.From the Trade Paperback edition.