Highfire: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times bestselling writer of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel in regards to 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 having a fifteen-year-old troublemaker away from home 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 about Highfire: A Novel the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent open fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nasal area sparks, swilling Absolut inside a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix within a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie-now he goes on Vern. However…he has survived, unlike the rest. He is the final of his kind, the final dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. Vern’s glory times are over. Or are they?

A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau will what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mom. He’s finally made a decision to work to get a shady smuggler-but on his initial night, he witnesses his boss murdered by a crooked constable.

Regence Hooke isn’t just a dirty cop, he’s a despicable human being-who happens to need Squib’s momma in the worst way. When Hooke will go after his hidden witness using a grenade launcher, Squib discovers himself airlifted from particular loss of life by…a dragon?

The swamp could make strange bedfellows, and rather than be fried alive therefore 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, maintain him business, etc.-in exchange for protection from Hooke. Quickly the three of them are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation. There’s going to be considered a fiery reckoning, where either dragons finally proceed extinct-or Vern’s glory days are back.

A triumphant go back to the genre-bending illusion that Eoin Colfer is indeed well known for, Highfire is an effortlessly smart and relentlessly funny tour-de-force of comedy and actions.