Kirjahaku

First in a brand new series from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Myth and Phule novels. A low-stakes con artist and killer poker player, Griffen "Grifter" McCandles graduated college fully expecting his wealthy family to have a job waiting for him. Instead, his mysterious uncle reveals a strange family secret: Griffen and his sister, Valerie, are actually dragons. Unwilling to let Uncle Mal take him under his wing, so to speak, Griffen heads to New Orleans with Valerie to make a living the only way he knows how. And even the criminal underworld of the French Quarter will heat up when Griffen lands in town.

The New York Times bestselling author scales new heights in his series of Big Easy-dwelling dragons... Griffen McCandles is adjusting well to running his gambling operation in the French Quarter of New Orleans and to his newfound status as head dragon. Other dragons are getting a whiff of his reputation, though, and they're not happy about it. Which is why there's suddenly a hit out on him. And, just in time for Halloween, the ghost of a voodoo queen wants Griffen to moderate a supernatural conclave. And though the strange goings-on will barely be noticed in a city used to drunken conventioneers and wild revelers, it's Griffen's chance to spread his wings-or crash and burn.

Skeeve has decided, at long last, to come out of his self-imposed retirement and get back into the problem-solving biz. He confidently expected walk in and take his rightful place as the head of M.Y.T.H., Inc. He didn’t expect to have to face off against Aahz for the job. With their friends lending help but showing no favorites, they start a not-so-friendly contest to see who will run the company by taking opposite sides of the next case to walk in the door. Will the legendary partnership survive the battle, or will this be the end of a beautiful friendship?

After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin's Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule's company operates with their own unique tactics....

THE FEW. THE PROUD.THE STUPID. THE INEPT.It was the perfect solution, put highly connectedCaptain Willard Phule in charge of the worstdregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule's Companymay be a band of rejects and misfi ts, but they didmanage to save the day with their unorthodoxmethods.Embarrassed, the Space Force may have found theperfect equation for disaster: Assign Phule's packof oddballs to save the Fat Chance Casino from acriminal take over. Phule's Company may stop themob ... but who will save the casino from them?

Nesvoevremennaja initsiativa lejtenanta Skaramusha, kotoryj pri bombardirovke unichtozhil lichnyj korabl vrazheskogo posla prjamo vo vremja mirnykh peregovorov, privela k diplomaticheskomu skandalu. Odnako lejtenanta ne uvolili iz rjadov Kosmicheskogo Legiona, a, naprotiv, povysili v zvanii i otpravili na zakholustnuju planetku Khaskena komandovat rotoj Omega, sostavlennoj iz otschepentsev, neudachnikov i buntarej, nezhelatelnykh v drugikh voinskikh soedinenijakh. O tom, kak nakhodchivyj kapitan lepit iz svoikh novykh podchinennykh slazhennyj i effektivnyj kollektiv, i povestvuet tsikl "Shuttovskaja rota".

ROBERT ASPRIN (1946-2008) proslavilsja svoim fentezijnym jumoristicheskim tsiklom "Mify" (MYTHs), prichem pervyj zhe roman, "Esche odin velikolepnyj mif" (Another Fine Myth), stal stol uspeshnym, chto izdateli zakljuchili s nim kontrakt na 6 knig, a zatem prodlili esche na stolko zhe. Posle 12 "klassicheskikh" asprinovskikh romanov serial prodolzhila Dzhodi Linn Naj. Sredi drugikh izvestnykh rabot avtora tsikl "Shuttovskaja rota" o prikljuchenijakh bravykh kosmicheskikh naemnikov, a takzhe kropotlivaja redaktura mnogotomnoj serii "Mir vorov", obedinivshej desjatki pisatelej, ot priznannykh masterov zhanra do debjutantov, sozdavshikh uvlekatelnuju vselennuju, naselennuju avantjuristami i razbojnikami. Junomu ucheniku maga Skivu s planety Pent ne povezlo - ego nastavnik gibnet pri popytke vyzvat chudovische, skovav ego pentagrammoj. Odnako... monstr okazalsja ne takim uzh i strashnym i dazhe vyzvalsja stat novym uchitelem Skiva! Vot tolko soglashenie mezhdu junym prostachkom i demonicheskim khitretsom vvergnet Skiva v takie peredrjagi, kakikh on ne mog i voobrazit.

Vot, dozhili...Esche vchera podmastere melkogo maga Skiv byl strannikom bez osobykh nadezhd na buduschee, a segodnja ego imenujut Velikij Skiv i pod ego rukovodstvom - tselaja komanda professionalov, masterov na vse ruki: troll i ego sestritsa, dva gangstera, maginja-moshennitsa, izverg Aaz i drakon Glip. S takim kollektivom vporu sozdavat korporatsiju po okazaniju magicheskikh uslug naseleniju! No na puti stanovlenija korporatsiju M.I.F. podzhidaet mnozhestvo opasnostej...