For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them--whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a way that was consonant with the act
American Craftsmen
โ Scribed by Tom Doyle
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates;Tor
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1466834579
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil--if they don't kill each other first.
US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier--a "craftsman." After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian sorcerer and haunted by his good and evil ancestors. Major Michael Endicott, a Puritan craftsman, finds gruesome evidence that the evil Mortons, formerly led by the twins Roderick and Madeline, have returned, and that Dale might be one of them.
Dale uncovers treason in the Pentagon's highest covert ranks. He hunts for his enemies before they can murder him and Scherie, a new friend who knows nothing of his magic.
Endicott pursues Dale, divided between his duty to capture a rogue soldier and his desire to protect Dale from his would-be assassins. They will discover that the demonic horrors that have corrupted American magic are not bound by family or even...
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