03371cam a2200397 i 4500 623544310 TxAuBib 20210409120000.0 191213s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019057944 9781432877798 large print : hardcover 1432877798 large print : hardcover (OCoLC)1131865610 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda OCLCO DLC OCLCF ZJF GRC GK8 IUK NZAUC OCL OQX TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF ZJF GRC GK8 IUK NZAUC OCL OQX TXKPL TxAuBib rda Colfer, Eoin, author. Highfire / a novel By Eoin Colfer. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs--now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie--now he goes by Vern. However...he has survived, unlike the rest. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. Vern's glory days are long gone. Or are they? A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett "Squib" Moreau does what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mother. He's finally decided to work for a shady smuggler--but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by a crooked constable. Regence Hooke is not just a dirty cop, he's a despicable human being--who happens to want Squib's momma in the worst way. When Hooke goes after his hidden witness with a grenade launcher, Squib finds himself airlifted from certain death by...a dragon? The swamp can make strange bedfellows, and rather than be fried alive so the dragon can keep his secret, Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as his go-between (aka familiar)--fetch his vodka, keep him company, etc.--in exchange for protection from Hooke. Soon the three of them are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation. There's about to be a fiery reckoning, in which either dragons finally go extinct--or Vern's glory days are back. A triumphant return to the genre-bending fantasy that Eoin Colfer is so well known for, Highfire is an effortlessly clever and relentlessly funny tour-de-force of comedy and action"-- Provided by publisher. 20210409. Dragons Fiction. Magic Juvenile fiction. Teenage boys Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Police corruption Fiction. Louisiana Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Fantasy fiction. lcgft Humorous fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL