Book Excerpt for the Day

    "A friend asked us to come here, to do this," Tilda said.

    "Well, not a bloody good friend, I can tell you that.  A true friend would not send you nor drag you into such an awful sad mess as this."

    Tilda sighed through her nose.  "We will pay you, Fitz.  We will pay you well."

    "I don't want it!  There is not enough coin to get me under that cursed yellow rock again!"

    "How about a thousand gold pieces worth of Miilarkian banknotes?"

    Fitz blinked, and his jaw fell open within his sandy beard.

    "That, Miss Matilda, should have been the first thing you said."

(from Devil Town, by M. Edward McNally)

8½*/10.  The full review is here.
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