Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Fantasy

FIRST WATCH

Dale Lucas

This is rousing fantasy with humor and heart, featuring misfit cops (or Watch Wardens) doing their thing in a Lord of the Rings-esque world, ideal for fans of Michael J. Sullivan and Jon Hollins's The Dragon Lords.

The cramped streets of Yenara are teeming with humans, orcs, mages, elves, and dwarves, and the understaffed Watch Wardens struggle to keep them all in line.

Enter Rem: new to Yenara and hungover in the city dungeons with no money for bail. When offered a position with the Watch to compensate for his crimes, Rem jumps at the chance.

His new partner is less eager. Torval, a dwarf who's handy with a maul and known for hitting first and asking questions later, is highly unimpressed with the untrained and weaponless Rem.

But when Torval's former partner goes missing, the two must consort with the usual suspects—drug dealing orcs, mind-controlling elves, uncooperative mages, and humans being typical humans—to uncover the truth and catch a murderer loose in their fair city.

Dale Lucas is a novelist, screenwriter, and film critic from St. Petersburg, Florida.

Available products
Book Published 2017-07-11 by Orbit
Book Published 2017-07-11 by Orbit

Comments

Fans of diverse cityscapes, mismatched buddy cops, and high adventure will relish this fantasy series launch.

A brilliant premise, wonderfully told. A city that breathes, and heroes you can't help but root for.

Great fun ... [First Watch] injects new life into a well-established formula ... [a] thoroughly splendid debut.

[An] entertaining story.... A real page-turner.

UK: Little, Brown UK

A glorious tour through fantasy’s seamier side, complete with irreverent dwarves and rabble-rousing orcs, mages, and humans. A wilder ride than Middle Earth, and you’ll love every minute of it!

First Watch is brilliantly written. Action, intrigue, and humor... Genuinely, CSI: LOTR.

I could have read this story for eternity, the characters and world building are that good ... every scene is brought to life with blazing imagery that is tied to constant movement. The characterization is superb and continues to surprise as events unfold.

Dale Lucas tells a rambunctious tale that sends the two watchmen into the worst parts of Yanara, fighting orcs and dealing with elves. The case is far bigger than either expected and leads to villainy that is actually illegal in the city. I can't wait for the next case.