Now a STARZ(R) Original Series - Season 3 premiere in January 2021 Pointed, occasionally comic, often scary, consistently moving and provocative....American Gods is strewn with secrets and magical visions.--USA Today Newly updated and expanded with the author's preferred text.
It is the story of Shadow--released from prison just days after his wife and best friend are killed in an accident--who gets recruited to be bodyguard, driver, and errand boy for the enigmatic trickster, Mr. Wednesday. So begins Shadow's dark and strange road trip, one that introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with his own. For, beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a storm is brewing--an epic war for the very soul of America--and Shadow is standing squarely in its path. Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive.--George R. R. Martin