Bøger af Ken Lizzi

Fantasy makes crime no less shabby-and thieves no less thick. Brick, ex-soldier turned tavern bouncer, lets loyalty and a woman involve him in a caper. Glum Arent, alcoholic poet, needs only greed and wine-addled imagination. With a nod to the novels of Elmore Leonard, the dean of American crime fiction, Thick as Thieves is gritty, street-level swords and sorcery from the author of Reunion and Under Strange Suns.

Santa Anna's sword is cursed. Nonetheless, people are willing to kill to possess it.A witch cursed with both deformity and long life seeks the sword to lift her curse. A curse eater wants to employ the power of the sword for revenge. A secret order wishes to sequester the sword away in a private vault. Karl Thorson, ex-Special Forces soldier, becomes embroiled with all three parties when Sasha Jackson, an art expert and the sister of an old army buddy of Karl's, asks him to accompany her to determine the provenance of an antique sword. The witch, Mary Pierce, will go to any lengths to relieve her curse. Silvanus Bosch, curse eater, has vowed to help. But he has goals of his own. Virgil Hamilton and his heavily armed crew will expend any amount of ammunition to secure magical artifacts. Karl Thorson is merely angling for a date with Sasha. That is, if her brother doesn't mind. Can Karl retrieve Santa Anna's sword? Can he free Sasha from kidnappers? And, who brought in werewolves?Don't miss the second book in the Semi-Autos and Sorcery series. It's what fans of Larry Correia and Jim Butcher are hungering for.

The inventor of the Faster-Than-Light Drive is missing, lost undertaking the first interstellar voyage. A terrorist attack leaves the Earth in a state of constant war. Amidst the global decline mankind begins emigrating to the stars. Special Forces soldier Aidan Carson is tired of fighting and his term of enlistment is ending. Brooklynn Vance, the niece of the FTL-drive''s inventor, thinks she knows where her uncle might be. Her offer to join the search gives Carson a chance at a fresh start; the starship Yuscehnkov offers a new home. Space travel is uncertain. Mechanical systems fail. People are unreliable. But war is a constant. Carson learns there is nothing new Under Strange Suns. And so he finds he must once again take up the sword, this time in defense of an alien race. Can he secure a lasting peace this time?"Ken Lizzi''s new novel [Under Strange Suns] blasts off in an action-packed flight to worlds far away, in a cross between John Carter and Star Trek, with just a dab of Starship Trooper tossed in. And it''s swords and guns and aliens, oh, my ... What''s not to like?" ~ Steve Perry, New York Times Bestselling Author