Garrett On The Case [Angry Lead Skies; Whispering Nickel Idols, #10-11]

Garrett Files #10-11

by Glen Cook

Some days it doesn't pay to lift your sodden head off the desk blotter.

Take it from me, Garrett, private eye. If you're cute and female, look me up, my address is in wizard-run TunFaire, where the paranormal plays daily. Look at my partner. Someone stuck a knife in him centuries ago, and hes been sedentary ever since. Dead, but not dumb, if you get my drift. And there's all these supernatural races clogging the streets-elves, trolls, pixies, ogres, dwarves, and some of the strangest are among my friends. Even they bring trouble, and when trouble comes knocking, don't open the door.

You think Id learn. Maybe that's why I got roped into the case in Angry Lead Skies. My bulky friend Playmate talked me into protecting Kip Prose, an annoying kid touched by brilliance and a bit of paranormal ability, whom he claimed was being threatened by skinny gray creatures with bulgy black eyes. According to Kip, the attackers weren't after him at all-just trying to get to his friends Lastyr and Noodiss. But before I could get him to explain who they were, Kip was abducted, and the chase began....

In Whispering Nickel Idols, trouble came from two sources: a streetwise priestess and her bucket of kittens, part of the ancient prophecy of the cult of A-Lat (curse this god-plagued city!). And a message from Harvester Temisk, mouthpiece of Chodo Contague, kingpin of kingpins, who slumbered in coma-land while his beautiful, psychotic daughter ran the Outfit. Temisk believed someone was deliberately keeping the Boss helpless and wanted me to snoop around. Then Chodo up and vanished. Add to that a mysterious plague of burning deaths and the fact that suddenly everyone was trying to kill me, I had plenty to figure out....

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

646 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Glen Cook was born in New York City, lived in southern Indiana as a small child, then grew up in Northern California. After high school he served in the U.S. Navy and attended the University of Missouri. He worked for General Motors for 33 years, retiring some years ago. He started writing short stories in 7th grade, had several published in a high school literary magazine. He began writing with malicious intent to publish in 1968, eventually producing 51 books and a number of short fiction pieces.
He met his wife of 43 years while attending the Clarion Writer's Workshop in 1970. He has three sons (army officer, architect, orchestral musician) and numerous grandchildren, all of whom but one are female. He is best known for his Black Company series, which has appeared in 20+ languages worldwide. His other series include Dread Empire and and the Garrett, P.I. series. His latest work is Working God’s Mischief, fourth in the Instrumentalities of the Night series.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/glencook

Reviews

[Pye Josephus Joestar · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is my least favourite of the Omnibus, only because there are two stories and the First one is probably one of the worst Garrett books. However the second book is One of my favs so it literally cuts down the middle for a rating.

[Nighteye · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whispering Nickel Idols was very good, complex story with many favorite satire parts involved and a fitting title.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adore these books, though some are better than others, of course.
This is an anthology of novels #10 and #11 in the Garrett, P.I. series.

In Novel #10, Garrett lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can't quite be described.

In Novel #11, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.

[Kevin Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished Angry Lead Skies … apparently for the 2nd time, though it truly was only rarely and vaguely familiar. Enjoyed it.
You know how you know it's fantasy! Because lots of hot females are throwing themselves at him. :)
2024-01-07 finished Whispering Nickel Idols, also apparently again.

[Dwer · Rating 4 out of 5]

stories 10 & 11. #10 was a bit to weird for my taste, but #11 was back towards more normal, and enjoyable.

[Nancy Raines · Rating 4 out of 5]

Garret Books 10-11