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Hazard's Price (The Chronicle of the Unbinding)

Series: The Chronicle of the Unbinding
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0441008372
Pages: 368 pages
Publisher: Ace Books
Price: $6.50
Reader Rating: Not rated

Hazard's Price by Robert S. Stone

Description: In a fantasy world of powerful rulers, streetwise criminals, wizards, and magic, Hazard was once a spy or a crook, depending on who tells his story. Now an absurdly rich dealer in electrical generators, he is being framed for a mysterious series of murders of retired government officials. After rejecting an odd attempt to hire him to do so-called research, and despite risking his respectable false identity, he gets involved in the hunt for the killer. Like a certain kind of action movie, the book moves at a rip-roaring pace, capturing interest with speed rather than craft. No earth-shattering message arises out of it, but it entertains, which is as valid as possessing some elusive literary quality; and by the final chapters, knowing what happens to its characters has become an important matter. The book, first in a projected series, isn't quite a self-contained story yet has some sense of an ending. Here's hoping loose ends are tied, bad guys take the fall, and the hero rides into the sunset later on.