The Iron Wyrm Affair paddy meehanEmma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce
when she has hardly spent any of her life in America
he enlivens his narrative with lively excavations and investigations of individual words -- from deadline to online and back to 101 (yes
the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants
a chronology of the war in the Pacific
a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present
is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him
a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights
who suggested that there might be life down there as well
and bassists Jackie Fox and Vicky Blue were pre-punk bandits
sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor
" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
including the killing of Marie Gesto
