Deathwish

Zusatztext Praise for Rob Thurman “All the great elements I’ve come to expect from this writer.”—#1 New York Times  bestselling author Charlaine Harris “A roaring roller coaster of a read…[it’ll] take your breath away.”— New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green “A beautiful! wild ride.”— New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu “Thurman continues to deliver strong tales of dark urban fantasy.”—SFRevu Informationen zum Autor Rob Thurman  is the  New York Times  bestselling author of the of the Cal Leandros novels, the Trickster novels, the Korsak Brothers novels, and several stories in various anthologies. For updates, teasers, music videos, deleted scenes, social networking (the time-suck of an author’s life), and various other extras such as free music and computer wallpaper, visit the author online. Klappentext In a nightmarish new york city! life is there for the taking in the fourth Cal Leandros novel from New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman. Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother Niko are barely getting by with their preternatural investigative agency when the vampire Seamus hires them. He's being followed! and he wants to know by whom. But the Leandros brothers have to do more than they planned when Seamus turns up dead (or un-undead). Worse still is the return of Cal's nightmarish family-the Auphe. The last time Cal and Niko faced them! they were almost wiped out. Now! the Auphe want revenge. And Cal knows that before they get to him! they will destroy everything and everyone he holds dear. Because! for the Auphe! Cal's pain is a pleasure. And they're feeling good... 1 Cal Once, when I was seven, I was chased by a dog. We lived in a trailer park then, my brother, our mother, and me. There were lots of dogs around, most of them running loose. I didn’t mind. I like dogs. But dogs . . . dogs don’t much like me in return. Puppies do. Puppies like everyone. They’d crawl in my lap, chew happily on a finger or the tattered edge of my sneaker. Dogs are different—one sniff of me was enough. The upper lip would peel back, ears would flatten, and the warm brown eyes would go glassy and slide sideways as they hunched away with tail tucked beneath their legs. Dogs don’t just not like me; they’re afraid of me. Except for Hammer. Hammer wasn’t right; not right being flat-out crazy. One hundred pounds of shepherd mixed with Rottweiler mixed with God knew what else, Hammer wasn’t afraid to look at me as the other dogs were. No, Hammer liked to look at me. He liked to think about me. If anyone thought animals didn’t think, didn’t plot, didn’t plan, then they’d never met Hammer. Two trailers down and one of the few dogs in the park kept on a chain, he watched me every day as my brother and I walked to school. He never barked. He never growled. He never even moved. He just watched. Because of his lack of apparent aggression, any other kid might have been tempted to pet him. Not me. Even at seven, I knew a monster when I saw one. It didn’t matter whether his owner had made him into one or he’d been born one like me. Hammer was Hammer. You didn’t pet him any more than you petted a rabid grizzly bear. You just walked by and kept your eyes on the ground. You never looked. . . . Just as Hammer never moved. Until he did. Hammer was bad inside, wrong , and as I recognized him, he recognized me. And when drunk old Mr. McGee let the chain finally rust through, Hammer came for me. I had my dollar-store sneakers and a bagged lunch my brother had made for me, but I didn’t have my brother. He’d gone ahead, although he was still in sight. He never failed to make sure I was in sight. I’d forgotten my backpack like kids do. I’d catch up. No big deal, until Hammer made it one. He’d been lying in the same position he lay in ...

Product details

• Authors: Rob Thurman
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2009
• EAN: 9780451462626
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46262-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cal Leandros; Cal Leandros
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy