Ascendance, John Birmingham
Ascendance, John Birmingham
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Ascendance
Dave vs. the Monsters

Author: John Birmingham

Narrator: Mark Zeisler

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/30/2015

Synopsis

For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an exhilarating new urban fantasy series featuring monster-slayer Dave Hooper and his magical splitting maul. Kids, there are no monsters under the bed. They’re in the front yard. As a hardworking monster-slayer, Dave Hooper tries not to bring his work home with him. But nowadays it’s hard to keep them separate. Email, cellphones, empath daemons, they never let a guy rest. The Horde has been raising hell and leveling cities from New York to Los Angeles, keeping Dave and his fellow monster-killer, Russian spy Karin Varatchevsky, very busy. But when the legions of hell invade the small seaside town his boys call home, Dave has to make a call. Save the world? Or save his family? Not as easy a choice as you’d think, since Dave’s ex-wife expects to be saved too. And there’s no convincing her that the supersexy Russian spy isn’t his girlfriend. She's just his sidekick—and an assassin.

About John Birmingham

John Birmingham is the author of Without Warning, Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, How to Be a Man, The Search for Savage Henry, and Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia's Adelaide Festival of the Arts. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Playboy, and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on June 26, 2015

Review copy Sometimes it's OK to jump into a series without reading the books from the beginning, other times it not such a good idea. If you decide to check out Dave vs. the Monsters: Ascendance I strongly recommend starting at the beginning with Emergence and then reading Resistance. There were tim......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on May 31, 2015

The final novel to feature rig engineer turned superhero monster slayer Dave Cooper, Ascendance picks up right where Resistance left off. Super Dave, newly teamed with the katana wielding Russian spy Karen Warat (aka Colonel Ekatarina Varatchevsky), is in New York. Dismissing Trinder, they race to de......more

Goodreads review by READERSBEWARE on March 20, 2025

The finale for this trilogy of a hungover man named Dave hooper with a magic splitting maul Lucille and don’t want to do anything lol. Dave and his now new sidekick Karen eat a lot of protein to keep their super powered bodies healthy. Threshy is a trip one of the funniest villains swear..Total mass......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 14, 2017

I liked the first book but beginning with the second book Dave Hooper became less and less...i don't know...likeable... I understand he's a huge douchebag but u was waiting and kinda hoping he'd be redeemed by the "end" but alas not so much. if there and up being more books to this series which seem......more

Goodreads review by Bookwyrm on July 19, 2015

I am a huge fan of this series. It is a completely different direction of urban fantasy than some of my other favorites, like Dresden and The Nightside books, but thats what I like so much. The main character, Dave Hooper, has more in common with Sandman Slim than Harry Dresden, while not quite cros......more

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