David Drake All the Way to the Gallows (B)

"Okay, the name Lucrezia Borgia doesn’t immediately conjure up images of her needlework. but for all you or I know. she was very good at it. Likewise Tm not best known for my humorous writing. Still, I laugh a lot."

—David Drakę, from the introduction

Widely known for the griin and gritty battlefield realism of his bestselling adventures of Hammers Slammers. and for other popular novels of military science Bction, David Drakę now takes deadly aim at the funnybone. Meet the goblin paratroopers and learn why a sane goblin would want to jump out of a perfectly good lighter-than-air balloon. Follow the problems of a team of hard-boiled, fearless space cops who have to operate under the niggling restrictions of a politically correct aben supervisor. March into the desert with a troop of rough, tough mercenary elves and humans who have to lose a dangerous magie talisman so that it will slay lost. all while being hectored by that same obnoxiouslv voc:al talisman. which doesn’t want to be lost. Enjoy a collaboration by Drakę and Lany Niven that is as unlike the "Man-Kzin Wars" universe as it is delightful. And rnore. And laugh all the way to the gallows.

"David Dr.ike is one of those rare authors who seems capable of switching from ono modę of writing to another. hard science, near futurę political thriller to high fantasy, with a smooth meshing of gears."    —Science Fiction Chroniclr

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