Blood Hound (Alexi Sokolsky: Hound of Eden) - Softcover

Baldwin, James Osiris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994407017 ISBN 13: 9780994407016

Publisher: Gift Horse Productions, 2016

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Dragon Award-nominated author James Osiris Baldwin writes gritty LGBT-inclusive, dark fantasy and science fiction. He was the former Contributing Editor for the Australian Journal of Dementia Care and has also worked for Alzheimer's Australia.

He currently lives in Seattle with his lovely wife, a precocious cat, and far too many rats. His obsession with the Occult is matched only by his preoccupation with motorcycles.

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Review

Blood Hound is a spell-binding blend of crime noir and urban fantasy. The anti-hero mage, Alexi, is an angst-plagued, cold-blooded hit man for the Russian mafia. He killed his father with a hammer and murders a colleague after telling him where to stand for best effect to break a magic barrier that he must cross to execute still another individual for the mob.

Alexi is short, unattractive, and antisocial. He is also loyal, tough and, through the magic of Baldwin's prose, likeable. In the logic of the narrative and of the mob, the people he kills deserve to die. In his determination to seek personal justice and find the Gift Horse for his boss, he is brutalized by stronger thugs and mages. In a moment of stress, he finds his soul in the form of a wise blackbird, who saves his life.

Through adversity, he discovers his true power. Baldwin brings an abundance of imagination to that well explored theme, along with adept writing style.

***** Big Al's Books & Pals Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Gift Horse Productions
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0994407017
• ISBN 13: 9780994407016
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Robinson Karen