If you have any question about this novel, please dont hesitate to contact us or translate team. Other tor books by glen cook instrumentalities of the night the tyranny of the night lord of the silent kingdom. Buy a cheap copy of garrett files sweet silver blues. Sweet silver blues could be read as a straightforward detective novel, where the hero is hired to find a missing heiress, who happens to be an old sweetheart of his. But for garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking. In particular, sweet silver blues details garretts journey through a war zone to find a missing heiress. I must admit that the beginning of the novel is not that great, but the story gets better and better with every chapter, just like in the black company novel. Garrett is no poet or philosopher, so you wont get pages and pages of descriptions like you do with the likes. Garrett is a tough exmarine private investigator in the mold of mickey spillanes mike hammer. Get to know some new foods that have a subtle sweet taste from natural sugars.
Sweet silver blues is a straightforward first person linear narrative. He already has an established practice at the opening of the book, the first. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Mar 16, 2009 sweet silver blues 1987 introduces garrett, a private eye in an openly highfantasy setting. But for garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to wh. The series is set in a fantasy world that is quite amusing. This text is available under a creative commons license and may have been adapted from the sweet silver blues bibliography at the internet speculative fiction database. His advisor is the dead man who is really not a man at all, but, oh never mind, buy this book, youll want to read it several times. In this novel, garrett is an exmarine who has spent five hard years fighting the venageti within the cantard.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sweet silver blues garrett, p. Tunfaire is an old city, with the royalty and wizards uphill and the criminals downhill in the slums. Oct 18, 2009 one of the comments on my speculative fiction and noir post pointed me to his garret pi novels, the first of which is sweet silver blues. Sweet silver blues is another book i put off for no real reason and ive done it for almost ten years at this point. Garrett is a superficiallyjaded exsoldierturneddetective. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sweet silver blues. Black gate articles the public life of sherlock holmes. Sweet silver blues, book by glen cook mass market paperback. Sweet silver blues sweet silver blues is the first book in the garrett files collection. Book 1 comparte tus pensamientos completa tu resena. Sweet silver blues ebook by glen cook rakuten kobo.
Sweet silver blues, garrett files by glen cook 1987 signet. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. But for garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. And just like in the black company novel there is a huge amount of action.
Langston hughess first book, published by knopf in 1926, is one of the high points of modernism and of what has come to be called the harlem renaissancethat flowering of african american literature and culture in the publics consciousness. In the opening scene of the first book, sweet silver blues, cook parodies the typical hungover pi with a client at the door trope. Read sweet silver blues by glen cook available from rakuten kobo. Glen cook is perhaps best known for the black company series. Its a sort of unofficial new years resolution of mine to read more books by glen cook in 2011 and. Sweet silver blues ebook by glen cook 9781101042007. Sweet silver blues, bitter gold hearts, cold copper tears by glen cook. Sweet silver blues 1987 is the first fantasy novel in the garrett files series. Come visit sometime to read the latest chapter of sweet silver blues.
Sweet silver blues by glen cook overdrive rakuten overdrive. The sizzle appears when the three are combined, and spiced with. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The paperback of the sweet silver blues garrett, p. Mass market paperback book published by signet new american library cr 1987. Garrett is a hardboiled detective living in the city of tunfaire, a melting pot of different races, cultures, religions, magics, and species. A war buddys death sends garrett on a wild hunt for his mysterious heir, last seen in a vampire nest which no mortal leaves alive. Unfortunately, sweet silver blues follows in that series knack for introducing confusion and leading the reader on such a herkyjerky path that its nearly impossible to see how one dot is connected to another.
No idea, but it might have something to do with the fact its only the first book in what is a series known as garrett files or garrett, pi. You will not sense monotony at at any time of your time thats what catalogues are for concerning in the event you ask me. Dj now protected and enhanced by a clear, removable brodart dustwrapper. It is actually rally intriguing throgh studying period of time. To misquote ebert concerning this novels two leads. The black company, shadows linger, the white rose, shadow games, dreams of steel, the silver spike, bleak seasons, she is the darkness, water sleeps, soldiers live. Rereading sweet silver blues was as enjoyable as reading it for the first time. Hardback and dustjacket in fine condition solid, sound, square, clean, and unmarked. Its actually the most over the top hardboiled prose of the entire. Sweet silver blues is a fantasy novel by american writer glen cook, the first novel in his ongoing garrett p.
Try manna bread tastes like a muffin but is made only from sprouted grains or oatmilk. Garrett is a lazy human private investigator in his 30s in the city of tunfaire, part of the kingdom of karenta. On langston hughess the weary blues academy of american poets. Get to know more about the sugardepressionenergy connection. Read food and healing, sugar blues, or potatoes not prozac. Sweet silver blues ebook por glen cook 9781101042007. He already has an established practice at the opening of the book, the first in a longrunning series. Sweet silver blues, garrett files by glen cook 1987 signet paperback.
Sweet silver blues by cook, glen in a land where magic can be murder, garrett, a human detective, tries to track down the heir to a fortune in silver in a world of gnomes, centaurs, and vampiresall of whom get in his way. The annals of the black company discounted ebundle includes. Sweet silver blues 1987 introduces garrett, a private eye in an. Sweet silver blues by glen cook is the first of the garrett, p. Garrett, a private investigator, is hired by the patriarch of some cobbler elves to carry out his sons last wishes. But for garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead. Goodreads members who liked sweet silver blues garr. The series combines elements of mystery and fantasy as it follows the adventures of private investigator garrett. Even with the aid of morley, the toughest halfelf around, garrett isnt sure hell make it out alive from a land where magic can. Aug 11, 2014 hes now a private investigator in the city of tunfaire, which is populated by humans, dwarves, pixies, ogres, trolls, and various races.
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