The Clock Man

Enter worlds of magic and dragons, martial arts and mayhem A woman waits in a plain white room, wondering why she's there and what's about to happen. A man and his talking gun hunt the bogeyman. A family finds its house is haunted and sets out to trap the ghosts, but what if the ghosts aren't the real problem? Far underneath a city, the figure of a man rests. For decades he's remained perfectly motionless. Last night he moved. In a world of magic, martial arts, and dragons, one man controls the flow of magic. Now his daughter wants him dead. Zapp Blander always dreamed of being a hero. When a man named Jack shows up, Zapp might just get his chance. She was designed to choose which slain warriors got to go to Valhalla, but Kara has developed her own ideas. The bogeyman of New Mexico is beaten and fed what should be a simple task: Kill the boy. But others have their eyes on the boy, too.

Eric Lahti grew up looking for UFOs and buried treasure in northwest New Mexico. Unfortunately, he never found either of them. Or maybe he did and he's just not telling. He did find some good stories to tell at parties about lights in the skies and gold in the ground, though.

When he's not writing, he's programming and practicing his Kenpo. He's also an active blogger, waxing philosophical about a range of topics from writing, to martial arts, to politics and religion. Frankly, he fancies himself something of a Renaissance geek about a wide variety of things.

Eric is the author of Henchmen, Arise, and a collection of stories called The Clock Man. He's currently working on his fourth and fifth novels.