plenty of quips and zap-pow-bang fighting.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Highly recommended.” - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction “Hearne understands the two main necessities of good fantasy stories: for all the wisecracks and action, he never loses sight of delivering a sense of wonder to his readers, and he understands that magic use always comes with a price. “ are clever, fast-paced and a good escape.” - Boing Boing

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.” - SFFWorld “ Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED | SCOURGED | BESIEGED Includes Kevin Hearne’s novella “Two Ravens and One Crow”ĭon’t miss any of The Iron Druid Chronicles: The real trick, he discovers, might be surviving his own faked death. But it’s the betrayal from someone he thought was a friend that shakes Atticus to the core and places his life in jeopardy. And then there's the hound of Hel, Garm, who’s terribly difficult to shake and not at all convinced that Atticus is dead.īeing tricked by a trickster is par for the course. There are things hiding in the Arizona desert that don’t want any company, and Coyote makes sure they know Atticus has arrived. The cost, however, might wind up being every bit as high as if he’d made no deal at all. With members of the Norse pantheon out for his blood, he can’t train his apprentice in peace, so he asks Coyote to help him fake his own death. Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”- SFFWorldĬutting a deal with a trickster god rarely goes well for any human brave or foolish enough to try it, but Atticus doesn’t feel like he has a choice. In the fourth novel of the Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan must pay his debts to cunning trickster god Coyote, a task that includes battling undead creatures of the night as well as a relentless hound of Hel and the goddess of death who commands it.

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