Introduction to Thraxas Book One #1 | | |
I was very pleased when Thraxas won the World Fantasy Award. I liked Thraxas when I wrote it and I like it now. I ended up writing eight books about the character. After a break of a few years, I've now written a ninth, which will be following along soon, in this new series of Thraxas ebooks. #2 | | |
Thraxas ekes out a living as a private investigator in the corrupt city of Turai. He's generally in trouble with the authorities, or the powerful criminal gangs that infest the place, or the unfriendly sorcerers that make life difficult for a small-time operator. #3 | | |
He lives in the poor part of town, with a barbarian for a landlord, and a quarter-Orc, quarter Elf ex-gladiator to help him when the fighting gets rough, as it often does. Thraxas once learned a little magic, but he's a hopeless sorcerer, which he knows. On the other hand, he's good with a sword and he's a legend at the dining table. The man's appetite for food and drink is simply vast. Thraxas can out-eat and out-drink anyone, and he's has never apologised for this. Nor will he. He knows the importance of of a plentiful supply of ale and a good plate of stew. #4 | | |
I admire Thraxas's enthusiastic appetites. I like his bravery too. He may be bad tempered, down at heel, and seriously overweight, but Thraxas will not desert you in a crisis. Providing he's sober - and there's a reasonable chance of that - he won't let you down. He's dogged too. He doesn't like giving up on a client, even if that client happens to be guilty, which is not unknown. #5 | | |
I wrote the Thraxas novels under the pseudonym of Martin Scott. Why I decided to to use a pseudonym, I can't remember. For the past six years or so, my inbox has been clogged up with requests for a new Thraxas book; most of them polite, a few despairing, and a few quite rude. I'm sorry it's taken so long to produce, but a ninth Thraxas book is not far away. Along with the rest of the Thraxas novels, it will be published as an ebook soon. #6 | | |
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