The Dragon Man

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder--"his."

The Dragon Men

Author: Steven Harper
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504096851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
In this steampunk sequel to The Impossible Cube, two adventurers must find a way inside a kingdom on the brink of war to save themselves and the world. As Gavin Ennock pilots his airship, the Lady of Liberty, to China, his fiancée, Lady Alice Michaels prays they make it in time. The Clockwork Plague consumes Gavin’s body and mind, driving him increasingly mad—and driving a wedge between him and Alice. Their only hope lies in China with the Dragon Men. But a power-hungry general has seized the Chinese throne, intending to conquer Asia, Britain, and the world. He has also closed the country’s borders to foreigners. Meanwhile, the former ruling dynasty is plotting to return the throne’s rightful heir to power. Seeing their opportunity, the two travelers dive into a political power struggle where one false move could spell doom for Gavin and the entire world. “[The Dragon Men] continues to demonstrate its original premise and to showcase the inventive pair who strive to save a world.” —Library Journal “My favorite book in the series yet. I’m not sure whether that’s because I’ve become so enamored with the world of the Clockwork Empire as a whole, or that the action sequences are nearly relentless, which a definite plus in this case.” —That’s What I’m Talking About

The Dragon Man

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29

Kittyhawk Down

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921145455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. This sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. Challis finds some aerial possesion in the possession of his friend, Kitty, that link her to the murders.

Dragon in Chains

Author: Daniel Fox
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345513460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
From award-winning author Daniel Fox comes a ravishingly written epic of revolution and romance set in a world where magic is found in stone and in water, in dragons and in men–and in the chains that bind them. Deposed by a vicious usurper, a young emperor flees with his court to the small island of Taishu. There, with a dwindling army, a manipulative mother, and a resentful population–and his only friend a local fishergirl he takes as a concubine–he prepares for his last stand. In the mountains of Taishu, a young miner finds a huge piece of jade, the potent mineral whose ingestion can gift the emperor with superhuman attributes. Setting out to deliver the stone to the embattled emperor, Yu Shan finds himself changing into something more than human, something forbidden. Meanwhile, a great dragon lies beneath the strait that separates Taishu from the mainland, bound by chains that must be constantly renewed by the magic of a community of monks. When the monks are slaughtered by a willful pirate captain, a maimed slave assumes the terrible burden of keeping the dragon subdued. If he should fail, if she should rise free, the result will be slaughter on an unimaginable scale. Now the prisoner beneath the sea and the men and women above it will shatter old bonds of loyalty and love and forge a common destiny from the ruins of an empire.

Facing the Dragon

Author: David Parnell
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757315232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
After more than 23 years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. Here he chronicles how that desperate act pulled him out of his personal hell.

The Eagle and the Dragon

Author: Chris Duffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544501949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"The world may know Chris Duffin as 'The Mad Scientist of Strength,' but you wouldn't have ever guessed that if you saw the scrawny kid skinning rattlesnakes and chasing dragonflies in the early '80s. The story of his unconventional life will take you from ... tales of murder, trauma, heartbreak, and survival deep in the Pacific Northwest wilderness all the way to an idealization of the self-made man--still flawed, but never broken"--Dust jacket fla

Dragon's Bait

Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547416946
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
In this fantasy adventure, a teenage girl accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by dragon finds an unexpected friend—and maybe something more. Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn’t matter—the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It’s late, it’s cold, and it’s raining, and Alys can think of only one thing—revenge. But first she’s got to escape, and even if she does, how can one girl possibly take on an entire town alone? Then the dragon arrives—a dragon that could quite possibly be the perfect ally…. An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age “Wicked wit and charm . . . as well as a gutsy heroine and a sexy dragon.” —Booklist “Alys herself is a worthy heroine, with a capricious gift for irony. A thoughtful mainstream fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] dark, bittersweet romance.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Dragon Man

Author: Brian M. Stableford
Publisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 9781434402707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Sara, a teenager growing up in a post-Crash world, struggles with the burden of having eight parents and conducting the remainder of her personal life in virtual space. In a world in which everyone lives for hundreds of years, children are very scarce--but not as scarce as people who were born during the Crash, who grew old before biotechnology reached the pitch of sophistication required to keep them young. Sara's first tentative attempt to assert her individuality, by equipping her artificial second skin with a purple rose, has unexpected side-effects. Her quest to correct the error brings her into contact with the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Dragon Man--an encounter that gives her the opportunity to put her life into a broader perspective, and to gain a better understanding of what e-mortality might mean for herself and the whole human world.

The Boy who Became a Dragon

Author: Jim Di Bartolo
Publisher: Graphix
ISBN: 9781338134117
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Graphix's first biography -- telling the astonishing story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.