Beyond World'S End

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Baen Books, 2001 - Fiction - 331 pages
This is your soul on drugs...
After the events chronicled in Bedlam's Bard, world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there's a new evil for them to quard against....
When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world -- and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyon.
With his possibly loyal companions -- a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle -- Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham's fate -- and his own.
 

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Epigraph
THE PARTING OF FRIENDS
A CALLINGON SONG
ON THE SEACOAST OF BOHEMIA
THE DARK CARNIVAL
GOBLIN FRUIT
TO CHAIN THE PHOENIX
LIGHTNING IN A SIEVE
THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
A GAME OF CHESS
FOR ALL THE MARBLES
LORD OF THE HOLLOW HILLS
TO END WHERE WE BEGAN
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Mercedes Lackey is a full-time writer and has published numerous novels and works of short fiction, including the best-selling Heralds of Valdemar series. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots. She can be found at mercedeslackey.com.