The action of this novel takes place in the world of “The Scar” and “Station of Lost Dreams” - a recognized phantasmagoric masterpiece, the most delightful and fascinating, in the opinion of colleagues in the workshop, novel of our days, the best, according to critics, work in the steampunk genre since “Machines of Difference” by Gibson and Sterling. The gigantic metropolis of New Crobuzon is bursting at all the seams - its strength is being depleted by the war with the distant power of Tesh, dissidents and loyalists have moved from polemics to street battles, mysterious troubles are corroding the very fabric of urban existence. And so a motley group of daredevils sets off on the trail of the golemist Judas Loew, who fled from New Crobuzon: according to rumors, he is looking for the legendary Iron Council - a symbol of freedom on steam power.