Hot Chocolate Between Times

Cult British book about a man who trades his soul for a mechanical time traveling body. Coloured by a huge number of characters, this book is surprising not well known.

Loved by fans for its combination of steampunk backdrop and gritty urban characterization.

Contains examples of:


 * Love Makes You Evil - Marcus after Evelyn dies.
 * Our Souls Are Different - After trading his soul Marcus goes from grieving over his dead wife to a half-crazed Anti-Hero hell-bent on wreaking havoc on time itself.
 * Temporal Paradox
 * Cosmic Horror - The Big Bad of the book. Polonius after betraying the other caped ones.
 * Badass - Most of the characters, notably the sadistic Lopez. He is tortured by the caped ones longer than any over man and managed to stay sane.
 * MacGuffin - The time machine
 * Eternal English - Subverted, it is heavily implied that Marcus sows the seeds for many English words as well as making up nonsense ones.
 * A God Am I - The Caped Ones