Moonshine

Zusatztext A subtly warped world compellingly built by Thurman. ( Green Man Review ) Cal's a sarcastic! sardonic narrator who pulls the reader into his world! both the good and the bad. ( Romantic Times ) 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 After saving the world from his fiendish father's side of the family, Cal Leandros and his stalwart half-brother Niko have settled down with new digs and a new gig-bodyguard and detective work. And in New York City, where preternatural beings stalk the streets just like normal folk, business is good. Their latest case has them going undercover for the Kin-the werewolf Mafia. A low-level Kin boss thinks a rival is setting him up for a fall, and wants proof. The place to start is the back room of Moonshine-a gambling club for non-humans. Cal thinks it's a simple in-and-out job. But Cal is very, very wrong. Cal and Niko are being set up themselves-and the people behind it have a bite much worse than their bark...I was born a monster. No big deal, right? Monsters are everywhere in this world. But I´m not talking your sweaty pedophile or your serial killer with a cold and silent harem buried in his crawl space. No, I´m talking about the real deal. Creatures that scuttled across the surface of this world when the air was sulfuric acid and the nighttime moon all but blocked out the sky. Scales and fangs, blood that doubled as venom, minds and bodies twisted in concert, dark legends come to life. These legends had always been a reality, but they were one that refused to register on modern human eyes. Monsters, they existed all right, and they were legion, so what was one more? Although truthfully, I was only half-monster. My mother was human; my father something...else. When we were younger my brother and I had called them Grendels; the rest of the supernatural world called them Auphe. You say tomato; I say murderous death incarnate. It´s all good fun. Auphe were the seed of the elf fantasy, believe it or not, but this seed was poisonous, and it would kill anything it touched. There was no blond hair or limpid blue eyes, no silken voices like a temple bell. There was only skin as palely transparent as that of a salamander, eyes the red of lava, and a mind blackened and putrid as a rotting swamp. Okay, they did have the pointed ears; I´ll give you that. Sometimes legends do get the facts right, but that´s not much comfort when a thousand metal teeth are buried in your throat. Half-monster or whole, in the end it didn´t matter. I had my weaknesses, same as anyone else. And I was facing one of them now. Clowns. Yeah, that´s what I said. Clowns. I hate clowns. Always have. Point one out to me at the age of three and I would run wailing in the other direction as if the Hounds...

Product details

• Authors: Rob Thurman, Thurman Rob
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2007
• EAN: 9780451461391
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46139-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 170 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cal Leandros; Roc Fantasy; Cal Leandros
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Fantasy, FICTION / Fantasy / General