A film about power, passion and the fine wine game. The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China. "For centuries, Bordeaux has commanded an almost mythical status in the wor
Dragon Coast
β Scribed by Greg Van Eekhout
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates;Tor
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Dragon Coast: the sequel to Greg Van Eekhout's California Bones and Pacific Fire , in which Daniel Blackland must pull off the most improbable theft of all.
Daniel's adopted son Sam, made from the magical essence of the tyrannical Hierarch of Southern California whom Daniel overthrew and killed, is lost-consumed by the great Pacific firedrake secretly assembled by Daniel's half-brother, Paul.
But Sam is still alive and aware, in magical form, trapped inside the dragon as it rampages around Los Angeles, periodically torching a neighborhood or two.
Daniel has a plan to rescue Sam. It will involve the rarest of substances, axis mundi, pieces of the bones of the great dragon at the center of the Earth. Daniel will have to go to the kingdom of Northern California, boldly posing as his half-brother, come to claim his place in the competition to be appointed Lord High Osteomancer of the Northern Kingdom. Only when the Northern...
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