Doubletake - A Cal Leandros Novel

Informationen zum Autor Rob, short for Robyn (yes, he is really a she) Thurman lives in Indiana, land of rolling hills and cows, deer, and wild turkeys. Many, many turkeys. She is also the author of the Cal Leandros Series: Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse , and Deathwish ; has a story in the anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe ; and is the author of Trick of the Light , the first book in the Trickster series. Besides wild, ravenous turkeys, she has a dog (if you don’t have a dog, how do you live?)—one hundred pounds of Siberian husky. He looks like a wolf, has paws the size of a person’s hand, ice blue eyes, teeth out of a Godzilla movies, and the ferocious habit of hiding under the kitchen table and peeing on himself when strangers come by. Fortunately, she has another dog that is a little more invested in keeping the food source alive. By the way, the dogs were adopted from shelters. They were fully grown, already housetrained, and grateful as hell. Think about it next time you’re looking for a Rover or Fluffy. For updates, teasers, deleted scenes, and various other extras, visit Rob Thurman's website and her LiveJournal. Klappentext Half-human/half-monster Cal Leandros knows that family is a pain. But now that pain belongs to his half-brother, Niko. Niko's shady father is in town, and he needs a big favor. Even worse is the reunion being held by the devious Puck race-including the Leandros' friend, Robin- featuring a lottery that no Puck wants to win. As Cal tries to keep both Niko and Robin from paying the ultimate price for their kin, a horrific reminder from Cal's own past arrives to remind him that blood is thicker than water-and that's why it's so much more fun to spill. Leseprobe Chapter 1 Black Sheep Family . . . it is a fucking bitch. Just like he was a bitch. I had seen him—wallowing amongst the game, but never tasting of the herd. More perverse, he lived with prey, had been raised by prey, had been taught the ways of the world by prey when I’d had to teach myself. Clawing myself along, I had chewed my way through knowledge as grimly as I’d once chewed discarded putrid meat and bone. Everything I’d earned, I’d earned with blood, mine or someone else’s. I had done what no one else could do. The castoff failure, but look at me now. Damn right, look at me. Look hard and look good—right before I gut you. Then there was him, the golden boy, yet look at what he had done. Naughty and bad, bad and naughty. But much worse: disobedient. Not what they’d expected of their one true success at all. I laughed at the irony of it. I laughed, but I hated him, hated him, hated him, hated him, hated him. Not for what he’d done, but that he’d been the one instead of me to do it. That was all right, though. That was fine and fucking dandy, as someone I used to know once said. Fine and fucking dandy, because I hated everyone anyway. The only difference was, I was related to this one . . . and that made the hate sweeter. Hate was all I’d known. All I had ever been given and all I had ever had. I was created from it, molded by it, lived by it. Hate was like air, necessary to life. I wore my hate as a second skin and let it warm me when nothing else did. I saw him through binoculars where I lay atop a roof far enough away that he wouldn’t know I was there. It was night, but I saw him clearly. Light was for the fearful herd; the night was for me. Not that it was ever truly dark in this immense mound of misbegotten roadkill waiting to happen. Yes, I saw him. He had black hair, pale skin, light–colored eyes. Nothing like I was at all. That I didn’t hate. That I liked—I was better, purer, closer to the truth. It was all about the truth. The new truth. My truth. And he was part of that, whether he wanted to be or not. Family was a hateful bitch; it was. I had the h...

Product details

• Authors: Rob Thurman
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2012
• EAN: 9780451464446
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46444-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Roc; Cal Leandros Novels; Cal Leandros; Cal Leandros Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy