One Man, Harry Connolly
One Man, Harry Connolly
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One Man
A City of Fallen Gods Novel

Author: Harry Connolly

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Unabridged: 16 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

As a child, Kyrioc was groomed to be the head of one of the most powerful noble families in Koh-Salash, a city built inside the skeletons of two murdered gods. Kyrioc himself dreamed of becoming head of the High Watch, the highest political position in the land.

Those dreams have turned to dust.

Presumed dead after a disastrous overseas quest, Kyrioc now lives in a downcity slum under a false name, hiding behind the bars of a pawnshop window. Riliska, a nine-year-old pickpocket who sells stolen trinkets to his shop, is the closest thing he has to a friend.

When a criminal gang kills Riliska's mother and kidnaps the little girl, Kyrioc goes hunting for her.

He doesn't care about the forbidden magic the gangs are fighting over—the severed ear of a glitterkind, a creature whose flesh contains astonishing healing powers. He doesn't care about the bloody, escalating gang violence. He doesn't care about the schemes of power-hungry nobles.

In a raging city on the verge of civil war, Kyrioc only wants to save his friend. He will risk anything for her, even awakening the powers that murdered the gods so long ago.

About Harry Connolly

Child of Fire, Harry Connolly's debut novel and the first in the Twenty Palaces series, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Novels of 2009. The sequel, Game of Cages, was released in 2010 and the third book, Circle of Enemies, came out in 2011, as did a prequel (cleverly) titled Twenty Palaces. King Khan, a pulp adventure novel based on the role-playing game Spirit of the Century, was released in 2013 by game company Evil Hat.

Later in 2013, Harry ran a Kickstarter for his apocalyptic epic fantasy trilogy, The Great Way, which was released in 2015. As stretch goals for that project, he published his pacifist urban fantasy A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark, and the short fiction collection Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy, which includes the Twenty Palaces short story "The Homemade Mask."

Harry lives in Seattle with his beloved wife, his beloved son, and his beloved library system.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on November 30, 2019

A Fantastically weird thrill-ride! Harry Connolly knocks it out of the park with this new stand-alone fantasy novel. A setting reminiscent of Gladstone's Craft Sequence and China Meiville's fantastic surrealism, the story itself has its roots in crime noir, with grotty criminal cabals and insightful......more

Goodreads review by jonathan finn on December 09, 2019

Hell of a ride When I got through the first third of one man I wrote a review after I got through more then half I deleted because it turned out to be a very different book then I was expecting. Set in a fantasy world where humans, more or less, rule but is populated by other kinds Bloodkind, shadow k......more

Goodreads review by Maximilian on October 18, 2020

This book book is brilliant. One man who is not himself mean in the mean streets of a fantasy city. It is a weird city and he is a little weird. World building is spot on and you feel it makes sense and follows its own logical rules. Tough action sequences, with a twisted narrative based on character......more

Goodreads review by Delfina on December 16, 2019

Hace mucho que quería leer una novela de policías con ambientación fantástica. Echo de menos la saga de los guardias de Pratchett y pienso que es un subgénero que tiene mucho potencial pero se suele aprovechar poco. Esta novela lo hace; es fundamentalmente una novela policíaca con sus detectives, su......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 21, 2020

One Man is a fast moving fantasy gangster novel. Kyrioc used to be a noble heir, but after a disastrous quest to prove his worth, he's been disfigured, and lives under an assumed name in a slum. When his neighbor stumbles into a criminal deal, and her daughter gets kidnapped, Kyrioc has to get her b......more