344 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2016
"'A literary love letter to the spy thrillers of the '60s mashed up with every sort of paranormal weirdness under the sun,' the Secret Histories Novels by New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green leave readers shaken and stirred by the supernatural adventures of Eddie Drood-- From the New York Times bestselling author of From a Drood to a Kill comes the next Secret Histories adventure ... The name is Drood, Eddie Drood, also known as Shaman Bond. My family has been safeguarding humanity for generations, facing the hidden horrors of the world so you can sleep at night and remain oblivious to the existence of the monstrous nightmares that walk and stalk among us. Speaking of predatory night terrors, there is a man who gets away with murder. A man who specializes in removing the problems from other people's lives by killing the people who cause those problems. …
"'A literary love letter to the spy thrillers of the '60s mashed up with every sort of paranormal weirdness under the sun,' the Secret Histories Novels by New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green leave readers shaken and stirred by the supernatural adventures of Eddie Drood-- From the New York Times bestselling author of From a Drood to a Kill comes the next Secret Histories adventure ... The name is Drood, Eddie Drood, also known as Shaman Bond. My family has been safeguarding humanity for generations, facing the hidden horrors of the world so you can sleep at night and remain oblivious to the existence of the monstrous nightmares that walk and stalk among us. Speaking of predatory night terrors, there is a man who gets away with murder. A man who specializes in removing the problems from other people's lives by killing the people who cause those problems. He operates from the darkest shadows of the hidden world, coming and going unseen. No one knows who he is, just his nom de mort: Dr. DOA. Somehow this demented doc poisoned me. I don't know how he did it, when or where, but whatever is coursing through my veins seems to be immune to magic cures and treatments. But that's not going to stop me from finding him and whoever hired him and giving them both a taste of their own medicine ..."--
Okay, but a bit too much John Taylor/Nightside is in it. :( While one (or a few) "...it was the easiest thing in world to..." in the Nightside series it was a let down to see some of the same passages wind up in a Drood book.
