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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

by Matt Dinniman

A tangled railway becomes the next dungeon puzzle

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A tangled railway becomes the next dungeon puzzle

On the Iron Tangle, a sprawling subway system where distance and direction behave unpredictably, survival depends on more than fighting monsters. Carl and Princess Donut must navigate deceptive stations, contend with a bounty, and cooperate with other contestants to solve the floor’s puzzle—while uncertainty about whom to trust complicates the effort. The setup combines the series’ game-show dungeon with a maze-like railway and a mystery linked to an apparently useless book. This large-print paperback also includes part three of the bonus story “Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret.”

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
  • Fans of science fiction adventures built around monsters, traps, and puzzles.
  • Readers interested in game-show or video-game-like fantasy settings.

Themes

Survival and competitionTrust and cooperationPuzzles and navigationPublicity and bounty hunting

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Book overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Welcome to the Iron Tangle! Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, have to team up with other contestants not just to survive, but to solve a deadly puzzle in this third, mind-twisting novel in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

Earth has been transformed into the set of the galaxy's most watched game show: Dungeon Crawler World, a nightmarish, multilevel, video game-like dungeon filled with traps, monsters, and mind-bending puzzles. Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine. The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds, from classic steam engines to sleek modern cars. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations aren't always what they seem, and the exit is perpetually just a few stops away.

The top ten list is populated, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price. They each now have a bounty on their head. They must work with other crawlers to solve the puzzle of the floor, but how can they do that when they don't know who to trust? The secret to unraveling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book.

Welcome, Crawlers. Welcome to the fourth floor of the dungeon.

Includes part three of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret."
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