Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon.

However.he has survived, unlike the rest. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie-now he goes by Vern. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs-now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. When Vern's world collides with a human teen named Squib, who becomes mixed up in some trouble while running booze for the local mob, their mutual struggle for survival becomes entangled in the most unlikely of friendships.'True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author's neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.' -Guardianįrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance- loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana-and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff. It isn't much of a life but he's alive to live it, and Vern is prepared do whatever it takes – even if its violent – to preserve his own hide.

Highfire has become plain old 'Vern' and, by day, he hides out among the alligators, watches cable-TV and drinks obscene amounts of vodka to pass the time. But this is not once upon a time, this is now, and now all Lord Highfire rules is his shack in Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp. Here's how Deadline, who broke the story, describes the TV adaptation: 'Once upon a time, dragons ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie. Once known as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie, the series sees Vern teaming up with Cajun swamp rat named Squib, who offers to run his errands for him in exchange for protection from a dirty cop who has a thing for Squib's mother. That character? A vodka-swilling dragon who likes to go by 'Vern' and watch Flashdance on Netflix rather than striking fear into the hearts of anybody.

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