Book Preview When I shoved through the doorway of Morley’s Joy House you’d have thought I was the old dude in black who lugs the sickle. The place went dead quiet. I stopped moving. I couldn’t push uphill against the weight of all those stares. “Somebody sneak lemons into your salads?” Quick check of the … Read more
Book Preview Glen Cook Dread Brass Shadows From the files of Garrett, P.I. 1 Whew! The things I get me into! We had snow hip deep to a tall mammoth for four weeks, then it turned suddenly hot and the whole mess melted quicker than you could say cabin fever. So I was out running … Read more
Book Preview Just when you think you have it all scoped out and youre riding high, old Fate will stampede right over you and not even stop to say Im sorry. Happens every time if your name is Garrett. You can make book on it. Im Garrett. Sitting pretty in my early thirties, over six … Read more
Book Preview Maybe it was time. I was restless. We were getting on toward the dog days, when my body gets terminally lazy but my nerves shriek that it’s time to do something—a cruel combination. So far sloth was ahead by a nose. I’m Garrett—low thirties, six-feet-two, two hundred pounds, ginger hair, ex-Marine—all-around fun guy. … Read more
Book Preview There was nothing to do after I wrapped up the Case of the Perilous Pixies. Two weeks of living with the Dead Man’s grumblings and mutterings would try the patience of a saint. A saint I’m not. Worse, Tinnie was out of town indefinitely and the redhead refused to share me with anyone … Read more
Book Preview It sounded like someone was knocking with a sledgehammer. I rolled over and cracked a bloodshot eye. I couldn’t see a figure through the window, but that wasn’t surprising. I could barely make out the lettering on the grimy glass: I had blown my wad buying the glass and wound up being my … Read more
Book Preview NIGHT SHADE BOOKS SAN FRANCISCO A Path to Coldness of Heart © 2012 by Glen Cook This edition of A Path to Coldness of Heart © 2012 by Night Shade Books Cover art © 2012 by Raymond Swanland Cover design by Claudia Noble Interior layout and design by Amy Popovich All rights reserved … Read more
Book Preview After the Founding of the Empire of Hkazar: Castle Greyfells in Duchy Greyfells, in Northern Itaskia THE COLONEL STALKED through the quiet corridors, each step charged with the nervous energy of a caged panther. Servants got out of his path, turned to watch after he passed. His tension surrounded him with an aura … Read more
Book Preview After the Founding of the Empire of Ilkazar Armies in Shadow, Waiting THE BEAST HOWLED and hurled itself against the wall of the cell next door. It raged because it could not sate its thirst for Ethrian’s blood. The boy had no idea how long he had been incarcerated. Night and day had … Read more
Book Preview What has gone before… H e came out of the smelted wastes, impossibly long after his family had been massacred by bandits. His name was Micah al Rhami, but now he called himself El Murid, the Disciple, and he was aflame with a holy vision. He came in a time of want, … Read more
Book Preview Chapter One Making of a Messiah Chapter Two Seeds of Hatred, Roots of War Chapter Three A Minor Squabble in Another Land and Time Chapter Four A Clash of Sabers Chapter Five A Fortress in Shadow Chapter Six Into Strange Kingdoms Chapter Seven Wadi el Kuf Chapter Eight The Castle Tenacious and Resolute … Read more
Book Preview FIVE: A Traveler in Black SEVEN: The Old Dread Returns ELEVEN: Marshall and Queen TWELVE: The Stranger in Hammerfest FOURTEEN: Lady of Mystery FIFTEEN: The Stranger’s Appointment SIXTEEN: Deaths and Disappearances SEVENTEEN: Michael’s Adventure NINETEEN: Funerals and Assassins TWENTY: The Dragon Emperor TWENTY-ONE: The King Is Dead. Long Live the King TWENTY-TWO: Eye … Read more
Book Preview ONE: Unto Us A Child Is Born I) He made the darkness his covering around him Like a whispering ghost the winged man dropped from the moonless winter night, a shadow on the stars whose wings fluttered with a brief sharp crack as he broke his fall and settled onto the sill … Read more
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Book Preview Other books by Glen Cook The Dragon Never Sleeps (Containing A Shadow of All Night Falling, October’s Baby and All Darkness Met) (Containing The Fire in HIs Hands and With Mercy Toward None) An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat Deadly Quicksilver Lies Whispering Nickel Idols Instrumentalities of the Night The Tyranny of the Night … Read more
Book Preview Marika’s darkship was forty miles from TelleRai’s heart when the first sword of fire smote the world. The flash blinded her briefly. There were more flashes. She did not keep count. The Mistress of the Ship had been blinded, too, and had lost control. The darkship twisted toward the ground. Marika reached with … Read more
Book Preview WARLOCK by Glen Cook Book Two of The Darkwar Trilogy BOOK THREE:MAKSCHE Chapter FifteenIBullets hammered the north wall of the last redoubt, Akard’s communications center. Mortars crumped. Their bombs banged deafeningly. Bullets leaking through the two small north windows had made a shambles of the communications gear.Marika had done what she could to … Read more
Book Preview It was the worst winter in memory. Even the Wise conceded that early on. The snows came out of the Zhotak early, and by Manestar Morning they stood several paws deep. They came on bitter winds that found every crack and chink in the Degnan loghouses till in frustration the older females ordered … Read more