This is your soul on drugs.
After the events chronicled in Bedlam’s Bard, world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment, hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there’s a new evil for them to guard against.
When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidney, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world—and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyon.
With his possibly loyal companions—a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle—Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham’s fate—and his own.
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“Readers will want to have read Bedlam’s Bard for the back story of Lackey and Edghill’s faerie world’s complex geography and social structure. Even on its own merits, however, this novel’s accessible blend of the urban and the whimsical will appeal to those who wonder whether the phantasmagoric walk city streets.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A fast-paced urban fantasy that resonates with the pulse of the modern world while remaining true to ancient legends.”
— Library Journal“Combines human evil and magical evil in a compelling way that brings the characters into today’s world. Eric is all grown up now and he’s a wonderful hero.”
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Mercedes Lackey is a bestselling American author of fantasy novels, including the Valdemar series, the Elemental Masters series, the 500 Kingdoms series, and many more. She also has written many stand-alone novellas and short stories.
Kevin R. Free is an audiobook narrator and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and several AudioFile best narrations of the year selections. Known for his work with young-adult novels, he has read titles by Rick Riordan, Walter Dean Myers, and Joe Haldeman. In 2011 he was named a Best Voice in Young Adult and Fantasy from AudioFile magazine for his narration of Myers’ The Cruisers: Checkmate.