A Fistful of Elven Gold

Name: A Fistful of Elven Gold
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alex Stewart
ISBN: 9781494548070

Author: Alex Stewart

Narrator: Ryan Burke

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

When someone starts killing his fellow bounty hunters in the port of Fairhaven, Drago Appleroot is happy to help his contacts in the City Watch with their investigation—for a reasonable fee, of course. But posing as an assassin-for-hire to draw out the killer attracts the attention of two separate groups from a far-off Elven kingdom whose private war is being fought on the streets of his home town.

Pitched into a maelstrom of treachery and lethal politics, Drago is forced into a long and dangerous journey to the heart of the Sylvan Marches, where one determined gnome might just decide the destiny of a kingdom. If he can survive long enough to decide which side he ought to be on.

About Alex Stewart

Born in Southend-on-Sea, a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen. Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother's enthusiasm for Thunderbirds, Godzilla movies, and weekly gift of comic books, he rapidly exhausted the local library's stock of juvenile science fiction, and resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother's ticket.

Since his debut in British science fiction magazine Interzone, Stewart has written short stories, novels, screenplays, comic scripts, reviews, criticism, and RPG scenarios, both under his own name and the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell. As Sandy Mitchell, he's best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40,000 tie-ins, described by David Drake as "First rate military SF." In the late nineties, he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime-time technothriller series Bugs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

A fun little book that could of been so much better if it would of stuck to the Western feel the first chapter suggested it would be like. Instead it turned into a good but not great fantasy mystery type story. I liked the main character and the story was well done with a few twists and turns so i e......more

Goodreads review by Veronica

Oh I liked this. Fast paced, liked the main character, some of the turns I admittedly did bot see coming. Overall, a fun time. Reads like it could be a standalone book or the type of series you don’t have to read in order.......more

Goodreads review by Henry

Drago Appleroot, a three-foot tall gnome, makes a good living in the city of Fairhaven as a bounty hunter. Then a fight between goblins and elves over A Fistful of Elven Gold (trade from Baen) ends with the death of most of his competitors. Helping the city watch as bait, ends with him caught in the......more