Twenty Palaces, Harry Connolly
Twenty Palaces, Harry Connolly
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Twenty Palaces
A Prequel

Author: Harry Connolly

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/10/2020


Synopsis

When Ray Lilly was thirteen years old, a handgun accident landed his best friend, Jon Burrows, in a wheelchair and turned Ray into a runaway and petty criminal. Fifteen years later, Ray returns home after a stint in prison; he;s determined to go straight, but he knows he can;t do that without making peace with his old friend.

What Ray doesn't expect is that Jon has just received a mysterious cure–not only is he out of his wheelchair, he seems stronger and faster than . . . well, pretty much anyone. Worse, his cure has drawn the attention of all sorts of powerful people: the media are camped out on his block, the police are investigating him for insurance fraud, and weird shadowy figures have begun to draw closer, figures who clearly do not mean to do Jon any good.

Can Ray atone for the biggest mistake of his life by protecting his oldest friend? And what terrible price will the world have to pay if he succeeds?

About Harry Connolly

Child of Fire, Harry Connolly's debut novel and the first in the Twenty Palaces series, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Novels of 2009. The sequel, Game of Cages, was released in 2010 and the third book, Circle of Enemies, came out in 2011, as did a prequel (cleverly) titled Twenty Palaces. King Khan, a pulp adventure novel based on the role-playing game Spirit of the Century, was released in 2013 by game company Evil Hat.

Later in 2013, Harry ran a Kickstarter for his apocalyptic epic fantasy trilogy, The Great Way, which was released in 2015. As stretch goals for that project, he published his pacifist urban fantasy A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark, and the short fiction collection Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy, which includes the Twenty Palaces short story "The Homemade Mask."

Harry lives in Seattle with his beloved wife, his beloved son, and his beloved library system.


Reviews

Наясно съм, че след "Кръг от врагове" писах колко съм доволен, че Конъли е сложил точка на серията си за Дървения човек, обаче като разбрах, че лани е пуснал не един, а цели два романа в света на Двадесетте Двореца си ударих дирника в тавана от кеф. Това ми припомни и, че има ретроспективна книжка......more

Goodreads review by Keith

Since Harry Connolly’s first book in the TWENTY PALACES series came out, I’ve been a fan. After reading his second book GAME OF CAGES --- which was easily one of the best books I read that year -- he became one of my favorite authors. When I sat down to type in a rating for the TWENTY PALACE prequel......more