Property of a Lady Faire - A Secret Histories Novel 8

Zusatztext “The action never stops… James Bond-style secret agent hijinks with urban fantasy. Fun, escapist fare.”— Library Journal “[ Property of a Lady Faire ] represents all that readers have come to desire in an Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf story: action, romance, intrigue, surprises around every corner, and an impossible threat defeated by heroism.”—SF Revu “Tons of plot, nonstop semicomic action, and further revelations about the entire Drood brood and their mysterious mission—what’s not to enjoy?”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Simon R. Green is a New York Times bestselling author of the Secret Histories novels, including Casino Infernale , Live and Let Drood , and For Heaven's Eyes Only , as well as the Nightside Series, and the Ghostfinders series. He lives in England. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green has another Secret History to reveal... Call me Drood! Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don't want to know me at all. For centuries! my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence as far away as possible from humans like you! without you even knowing we're there. Unfortunately for us! not everybody appreciates what we Droods do. Recently! I personally managed to survive yet another attempt on my life! but the rest of my relatives weren't so lucky. My parents are missing in action. My grandfather has been murdered. And the future of my family lies in the iron grasp of the Lady Faire! an incredibly seductive! mysterious! and powerful being. She possesses an ancient object that can save them. I have to steal it from her. Easy enough to say! difficult—and very! very dangerous—to do... Leseprobe ALSO BY SIMON R. GREEN ACE BOOKS ROC CHAPTER ONE I was just breaking out of a Top Security section of the Vatican, after an entirely successful burglary, when a voice spoke my name. I had been padding very quietly down a corridor that wasn’t on any plan, in a building that didn’t officially exist, and the last thing I expected was to hear my name spoken aloud by a voice I was almost sure I recognised. I stopped and looked quickly about me. I was half-way down a long, unlit hallway, heavy with shadows, with not a light on anywhere in the dozen or so adjoining offices. I was completely alone. I knew that, because I’d gone to great pains and trouble to make sure of it. Because if the Vatican Security Forces ever found a Drood field agent operating anywhere inside the bounds of the holy city, they would quite definitely never forgive me. The Church might have made occasional use of the Droods down the centuries but has never trusted my family an inch. And I think it is only fair to say, vice versa. The corridor was so dark I could only just make out its far end, but I was positive there wasn’t another soul anywhere near me. The deep shadows lay undisturbed, and it was so quiet all I could hear was my own slow, controlled breathing. And then the Merlin Glass shot up out of my pocket to hang on the air right in front of my face. I didn’t quite jump out of my skin, and I didn’t actually make the strangulated scream I very much wanted to, but I did regard the hand mirror hovering before me with more than usual interest. Because if your very secret mission has just been utterly compromised and is now lying tits up in the gutter, you might as well enjoy it. The sorcerer Merlin Satanspawn—and yes, I do mean the one you’re thinking of—had made a present of the Glass to my family some fifteen hundred years ago. We’re still trying to decide whether that was a kindly act or not. Ever since the Merlin Glass fell into my hands, not that long ago, it has proved itself to be highly useful, intensely irritating, and constantly surprising. Not least because I can n...

Product details

• Authors: Simon R. Green
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780451414328
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41432-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Secret Histories; Secret Histories
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy