Highfire : a novel

Resource Information

The work Highfire : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Highfire : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Eoin Colfer

Creator

• Colfer, Eoin

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc
• Heller, Johnny

Author

• Colfer, Eoin

Narrator

• Heller, Johnny

Subject

• Audiobooks
• Audiobooks
• Downloadable audio books
• Dragons
• Dragons -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Louisiana
• Louisiana -- Fiction
• Police corruption
• Police corruption -- Fiction
• Social isolation
• Social isolation -- Fiction
• Swamps
• Swamps -- Fiction
• Teenage boys
• Teenage boys -- Fiction
• Alcoholism
• Alcoholism -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Downloadable audio books
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance- loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana?and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff. 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

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

B@L

Dewey number

823.92

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PR6103.O4427

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Johnny Heller

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable