The Dragons of the Cuyahoga

✍ Scribed by Swann, S Andrew

• Book ID: 106878221
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 193 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780756400095

✦ Synopsis

Review

Cleveland author S. Andrew Swann's newest book involved elves, dragons and magic. Best of all, THE DRAGONS OF THE CUYAHOGA takes place in Cleveland.

Swann's tale centers around an investigative journalist and the murder of a dragon, an act that involved greed, graft, and a lot of very heavy magic. It's a good energetic mystery, with a complicated plot and lots of chasing-down-leads action. But the Cleveland setting, and the idea that this is a place of powerful juju, is what makes it fun.
-Cleveland Plain Dealer

Swann's latest hard-hitting mystery is a fantasy, set in a Cleveland, Ohio that has been drastically changed by the opening of a gateway to a magical dimension, and the resulting leakage of magic. The murder victim is a dragon; the detective is a political reporter who really resents being forced to cover a "fuzzy gnome" story about a dead dragon.... Though the death of a dragon provides the impetus, the novel's really about the way this transformed world works, with elves, wizards, scrambled electronics-and an ailing city revived thanks to an influx of magic-seeking tourists. It's a provocative world of deadly enchantment in which the dirty game of politics remains the biggest theme of all.
-Locus

Product Description

Meet Kline Maxwell. City Hall reporter for the Cleveland Press. He's the kind of guy who's seen it all-if "it all" includes a fellow reporter sprouting eyeballs all over his body....

That's just the beginning. Maxwell's assigned to a story about the crash-landing of a dragon in the Cuyahoga River. Typical of the stuff that's been happening since that magical Portal opened up. Seems like just another "fuzzy gnome" kind of story.

Until Maxwell gets kidnapped. By elves....