Princess of Wands

Informationen zum Autor John Ringo? brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a New York Times best-selling series with more than one million copies in print. The series contains A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hell's Faire, and Eye of the Storm. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach, A Deeper Blue, and, with Ryan Sear, Tiger by the Tail). His techno-thriller The Last Centurion was also a national bestseller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking Glass series: Into the Looking Glass, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, and Claws That Catch, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars, and We Few. There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series: The Hero, written with Michael Z. Williamson; Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, and The Tuloriad, all written with Tom Kratman; and the New York Times bestseller Cally's War and its sequels Sister Time and Honor of the Clan, all with Julie Cochrane. His science-based zombie apocalypse Black Tide Rising series includes Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope, and Strands of Sorrow. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings firsthand knowledge of military operations to his fiction. Klappentext Two strangers--a frustrated housewife in search of some authentic Cajun food and a New Orleans homicide detective in search of a murderer--find themselves headed to the bayou and a rendezvous that might be fate. It might reveal the hand of God or the mystery of the Bayou Ripper. Zusammenfassung Buffy meets Desperate Housewives meets killer demons! Fast-moving fantasy action from a New York Times best-selling master of edge-of-the-seat adventure. Special: distinguished by some unusual quality . . . Circumstances: a piece of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an event . . . Barbara Everette! homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi! had the perfect life. Perfect husband! perfect children! perfect house! perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite! toting the kids! running the PTA! teaching kung-fu in the local dojo . . . Perfectly. But perfection has a price and the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have "one weekend off." God had to grant her that much. It said no where that she was a slave. Waving goodbye to her hapless! entirely undomestic husband! she set out on the quest for a weekend of peace and maybe some authentic Cajun food. Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockhart! New Orleans Homicide! had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect. And there should be at least five or six! given the DNA traces on the many bodies. Furthermore! his sole really outstanding clue! a mysterious fish scale! had disappeared into the recesses of the FBI Crime Lab. But the old fortune-teller was sending him into the bayou! down in the land of authentic Cajun food! on the track of a mysterious pimp with the admonition to "watch for the Princess." Or die. Barbara and Kelly were heading to a rendezvous that might be fate and might reveal the hand of God. There was more cooking in the swamps than jambalaya. Unknown to either! the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances. ...

Product details

• Authors: John Ringo
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2006
• EAN: 9781416509233
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-0923-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 10 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy