Ergebnis für "The Watchers" in Humor

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Conrad Clarke, former RAF pilot and alleged gangster, gets a text – and a visit – from The Allfather. Odin has a challenge for Conrad: Sign up to protect England from wild magick and get a commission in the King’s Watch. All he has to do is find a missing witch. Simple. Conrad never could resist a challenge. Before you can say “Ragnarok”, he’s plunged into a world of gods, mages, witches, dwarves, and one very aggressive giant mole.

“Start with Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching satire and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get something like Terry Pratchett’s Thud...

Что за Новый год без пожеланий? Моё оказалось бракованным. Вместо праздника в кругу семьи я попадаю в другой мир. И не кем-нибудь, а преподавателем бытовой магии. Приходится налаживать общение со студентами, фамильяром и прочими сурово-магическими личностями, которые всячески мешают мне работать.