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The Wooden Man (3-in-1)

A Twenty Palaces Omnibus: Child of Fire/ Game of Cages/ Circle of Enemies

by Harry Connolly

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The Wooden Man

Child of Fire
A Twenty Palaces Novel

Chapter One

It felt good to sit behind the wheel again, even the wheel of a battered Dodge Sprinter. Even with this passenger beside me.

The van rumbled like a garbage truck, handled like a refrigerator box, and needed a full minute to reach highway speeds. I’d driven better, but I’m a guy who has to take what I can get while I’m still alive to get it.

The passenger beside me was Annalise Powliss. She stood about five foot nothing, was as thin as a mop handle, and was covered with tattoos from the neck down.

Her hair was the same dark red as the circled F’s I used to get on my book reports, and she wore it cropped close to her scalp. It was an ugly cut, but she never seemed to care how she looked. I suspected she cut it herself.

She was my boss, and she had been forbidden to kill me, although that’s what she most wanted to do. “Where are we going?” I asked for the fourth time. She didn’t answer. She wasn’t talking to me except to tell me where to drive. To be honest, I didn’t blame her. She had good reason to hate me.

At the moment, though, she and I had a job to do and all I knew about it was this: Annalise was on her way to kill someone. Maybe several someones. I was supposed to help.

Because she wouldn’t talk to me, I was not entirely clear who had ordered her not to kill me or why they would bother. I was just the driver, and I didn’t even know where we were going.

“Quarter tank,” I said as we approached a gas station. I hated to drive on less than a half tank of gas, but so far the boss had refused to let me fill up. Since she had the money, the title, and the physical strength to tear my arm off, she made the decisions.

She glanced down at the scrap of wood in her hand— unpainted and unfinished except for the twisted nonsense shape made of several colors on one side— and said nothing. I stifled my irritation and drove past the pumps.

We were westbound somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula. There were no other cars on the road. The streets were slick with misting rain, and the sky was growing dark as eve ning approached. After my years in Southern California, I’d forgotten how long it could take for night to fall in this part of the world.

The road was one of those rural highways with one lane in each direction and a speed limit of fifty- five. I was staying below the limit because the van, with its balding tires, whining brakes, and load of equipment in the back, wasn’t equipped for the twists and turns of backwoods driving.

I was enjoying the drive anyway. I had a key to the door and I could see the sky. It felt good to be a free man again.

Excerpted from Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. Copyright © 2009 by Harry Connolly. Excerpted by permission of Del Rey, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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The Wooden Man (3-in-1)

Ray Lilly is living on borrowed time. He’s the driver for Annalise Powliss, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palace Society, a group of sorcerers committed to hunting down and executing rogue magicians. But because Ray betrayed her once, Annalise is looking for an excuse to kill him—or let someone else do the job.

Unfortunately for them both, Annalise’s mission goes wrong in Child of Fire. With his boss critically injured—and only one spell to his name—Ray must stop a sorcerer who sacrifices innocent lives for supernatural power.

In Game of Cages, a secret auction unleashes a predator capable of devouring all life on earth, and it’s up to Ray to catch it before the society’s most powerful enemies capture it first. And in Circle of Enemies, when Ray finds out his old gang is in magical trouble, he will either have to save them...or kill them.

As unstoppable as a bullet train from hell, The Wooden Man by newcomer Harry Connolly—who has been lauded by the likes of no less than Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris(!)—speeds from Seattle to L.A. through a gritty, modern-day landscape where heroes with strange powers battle unspeakable horrors out of the Deeps.

Expect collateral damage. Lots of it.

Hardcover : 752 pages

Publisher: Ballantine/Delrey Bks/Div Random House ( September 10, 2011 )

Item #: 13-410551

ISBN: 9781611297706

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 inches

Product Weight: 26.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Can't put down!
February 11, 2012

Read it till it was gone. Hope there will be more! A great anti hero, hero.

Reviewer: Tim H

Very, very good book! Highly recommend.
November 27, 2011

This book was well-written and one of those "you can't put it down" kind. It's a very different type of idea with the "wooden man" and the magical society. I really liked pretty much everything about it and if you're looking for a really good book to read, I would recommend getting this one!

Reviewer: Letitia R

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The Wooden Man (3-in-1)

by Harry Connolly

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The Wooden Man

The Wooden Man (3-in-1)

Can't put down! February 11, 2012

Very, very good book! Highly recommend. November 27, 2011

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Can't put down!
February 11, 2012

Very, very good book! Highly recommend.
November 27, 2011