Bücher von Bill McCurry

A reluctant, aging assassin. An angry dragon hitting puberty. A realm about to go up in flames...Bib the sorcerer fears his marriage is on the rocks. But while the cynical forty-something and his wife attempt to restore her magically erased memories, a powerful magician enspells him with a command to kill a king. And while he wracks his brain for a loophole to avoid committing regicide, a ravenous teenage dragon shows up demanding answers.Using the flame-throwing beast to prop up his waning physical prowess, Bib reluctantly slays the local ruler... and then hunts down the man who forced him into the deed. But traveling across the land with an acne-ridden sidekick has his past life flashing before his eyes in a worrying stream of questionably selfish decisions.

He's singlehandedly fighting an army to defend a kingdom filled with ungrateful idiots. Can he stop his legacy from going up in flames?Bib the sorcerer is done saving the world. After volunteering to guard his realm's vulnerable backdoor by remaining in exile for the last seventy years, the snarky sword master has no interest in bailing the next generation out of their catastrophic war. But when his late wife's step-grandkids show up begging for help, his initial refusal turns to vengeance when one of the youngsters is killed by an assassin.Grimly determined to balance the bloody scales, Bib returns to his former home to be greeted with unfamiliar sights and a mocking populace. But in his eagerness to be victorious so he can give them the finger and stalk into the sunset, the famous magic-wielder seriously underestimates a deadly foe.Will his arrogance get him spit-roasted by his new master?The Dragon's Manservant is the sarcasm-stuffed first book in the Sorcerer of Bad Examples humorous fantasy series. If you like heroes who can't catch a break, novel twists, and fast-paced action, then you'll love Bill McCurry's laugh-out-loud adventure.

Cursed to take lives for the God of Death. Sorcerers must give up things and people they love, or accept things they despise, to gain magical power. The sorcerer Bib saves his daughter by accepting a curse to murder people, and only Death knows how many Bib must kill. He tries to slay only evil people, but soon finds he's also killing people who are merely bad, or who might someday become bad. Bib chases a brutal sorcerer to help a woman rescue her boy, mainly because he expects a lot of killing. But he doesn't expect to unearth obscure magic, enslave spiteful supernatural beings, and strike ghastly bargains with the childish gods. And the last thing he expects is to face the question-is he a good man cursed to crave murder, or has he always been a murderer at heart?

The idiot gods are being murdered. An unexplained malevolence severs them from the world of mankind and reduces them to feckless insanity, and they weren't all that stable to start with. Now one of the gods' most horrendous enemies slaughters them while they hide in different realities, much like divine, lunatic bunnies. The Blacksmith of the Gods, Fingit, has been mocked by his fellow gods since the beginning of time, but now only he is still lucid enough to conceive a scheme to save them and maybe reality itself. Fingit contrives a plan so clever that if anyone dies it won't be him. But the most deranged being in the universe, his sister Sakaj, drags him into her own lunatic scheme. Fingit must outwit her, defeat the gods' foes, overcome the entity that is thrusting them into oblivion, and grapple with the most singular problem of all-while the gods have been gone, has mankind cared? Or even noticed?