Pages: 320 pages
ISBN: 0756403154
Publisher: DAW Books Inc.
Publication Date: March 4, 2005

Two years after investigating the high-profile death of a dragon for the Cleveland Press, reporter Kline Maxwell is safely back on the political beat. Then he receives a call from a dwarf claiming to have information on the suicide of a former city council president, a dwarf who quickly suffers a gruesome death. Soon Kline is again wrapped in a mystical conspiracy of wide-ranging implications.

And at the center of the conspiracy is an ancient evil that has taken an interest in Kline and his family. . .

Note: This novel is now published as part of the Dragons & Dwarves omnibus.

Skillfully done light adventure with more than a dash of humor…
—Science Fiction Chronicle

I like this book better than its predecessor. … It’s a very good mystery that happens to be in a fairly good fantasy setting, possibly an ideal combination for a genre-fiction junkie…

R. Kelly Wagner, Amazon Reader

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