The Garrett novels are made of awesome and win. I think they're what Cook uses to de-stress after writing Black Company books (which are too damn
depressing for me to stand).
...Doug showing up there would be truly nifty, but the series is still going. Although there are signs in the latest volume that it may be drawing to some
sort of conclusion.
I should point out, though, that the Capital-G Gods only show up in one volume.
Let me see...
The city of TunFaire, sleazy capital of Karenta. The Karentines have been at war with Venageta for over a century, battling over silver mines located in an
isthmus between them -- silver is the universal fuel for high-powered magic, and both kingdoms are effectively ruled by wizards of various stripes. As
Karentine law requires that absolutely every remotely healthy full-blooded human male serve at least one term in the army (nobility and wizardry are not
exempt), the once pure-human capital has been hiring a lot of elves, dwarves, and whatnot for long enough for significant immigrant populations and half-,
quarter-, and multi-breed underclasses. There's a lot of racial tension brewing on top of the usual class struggle.
Garrett, ex-Marine, is a confidential investigator whose usual jobs involve preventing brewery workers from walking off with too much of their product... but
somehow he always attracts the strange cases. Usually heralded by some jaw-dropping beauty showing up on the doorstep he shares with the Dead Man, a
four-hundred-year-old telepath whose species just won't finish dying until their (inanimate) corpses are completely destroyed (and they don't decay,
either). Rounding out the gang are Morley Dotes, half-elf vegetarian restarateur and master assassin, and Saucerhead Tharpe, legbreaker par excellence. Along
with a steadily accumulating cast of weirdos and beauties.
All but the two most recent books are out of print, but there's a torrent on Demonoid, here.
--Sam
"He stands, like some kind of... pagan god or deposed tyrant. Staring out over the city he's sworn to... to stare out over..."
depressing for me to stand).
...Doug showing up there would be truly nifty, but the series is still going. Although there are signs in the latest volume that it may be drawing to some
sort of conclusion.
I should point out, though, that the Capital-G Gods only show up in one volume.
Let me see...
The city of TunFaire, sleazy capital of Karenta. The Karentines have been at war with Venageta for over a century, battling over silver mines located in an
isthmus between them -- silver is the universal fuel for high-powered magic, and both kingdoms are effectively ruled by wizards of various stripes. As
Karentine law requires that absolutely every remotely healthy full-blooded human male serve at least one term in the army (nobility and wizardry are not
exempt), the once pure-human capital has been hiring a lot of elves, dwarves, and whatnot for long enough for significant immigrant populations and half-,
quarter-, and multi-breed underclasses. There's a lot of racial tension brewing on top of the usual class struggle.
Garrett, ex-Marine, is a confidential investigator whose usual jobs involve preventing brewery workers from walking off with too much of their product... but
somehow he always attracts the strange cases. Usually heralded by some jaw-dropping beauty showing up on the doorstep he shares with the Dead Man, a
four-hundred-year-old telepath whose species just won't finish dying until their (inanimate) corpses are completely destroyed (and they don't decay,
either). Rounding out the gang are Morley Dotes, half-elf vegetarian restarateur and master assassin, and Saucerhead Tharpe, legbreaker par excellence. Along
with a steadily accumulating cast of weirdos and beauties.
All but the two most recent books are out of print, but there's a torrent on Demonoid, here.
--Sam
"He stands, like some kind of... pagan god or deposed tyrant. Staring out over the city he's sworn to... to stare out over..."