Day of the Dragonking: The Last American Wizard

Day of the Dragonking: The Last American Wizard

KIRKUS REVIEW

Mystically powered terrorists unleash volatile magic on the world, turning Washington, D.C., into a politically charged fantasyland ripe for human sacrifice.

A trio of suicide attackers with magical abilities bring down a 747 by summoning a dragon to rip it from the sky, using the hundreds of lives lost as a sacrifice to initiate the Change. The country morphs into a new landscape of swords and sorcery. Now computers and other machines are coming to life, and regular people have started to turn into mythical creatures and forgotten deities, creating a chaotic world easily seized by whoeverâ€”or whateverâ€”set this shift into motion. Hope appears in the nationâ€™s capital where, along with transforming Democrats into potbellied elves, Republicans into cantankerous dwarves, and Tea Party members into trolls, the Change has granted struggling freelance journalist Steve Rowan the abilities of the Tarot Arcanaâ€™s Fool card, making him a powerful, yet unreliable, wizard. Realizing his potential, he is â€œhiredâ€ by the trivia-obsessed sentient computer Barnaby and coupled with the attractive, no-nonsense female Navy SEAL Ace Morningstar to uncover the puppet masters behind the plane crash. Irving (Courier, 2014, etc.), a producer of Emmy Awardâ€“winning news television and a journalist well-acquainted with the Beltway, makes good use of clichÃ©d Washington stereotypes by mashing them together with fantasy tropes, breathing new life into political satire. ...Like many first books in a genre series, the novel foreshadows a greater enemy behind all this madness while barely hinting at its identity, offering a wonderfully bizarre consolation prize as its denouement.

A clever, humorous fantasy...

Country	USA
Author	Edward Irving
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	3
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Ronin Robot Press
Manufacturer	Ronin Robot Press
NumberOfPages	334
PublicationDate	2016-05-17
Publisher	Ronin Robot Press
ReleaseDate	2016-05-17
Studio	Ronin Robot Press

Day of the Dragonking: The Last American Wizard

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