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Robert Lynn Asprin was born in 1946. While he's written some stand-alone novels such as Cold Cash War, Tambu, and The Bug Wars, Bob is best known for his series fantasy, such as the the groundbreaking Thieves World anthologies he created with Lynn Abbey and the Myth Adventures series, often coauthored with Jody Lynn Nye. Upon his return to his beloved New Orleans French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina, Bob began work on the second book in a new series (Dragons Wild, Dragons Luck, Dragons Deal) about a young man named Griffen McCandles who finds out he is a not only a great poker player, but also a dragon. The third book in the series, Dragons Deal, completed by Jody Lynn Nye, is due out Dec. 2010. NO Quarter, written in collaboration with Eric Del Carlo and Teresa Patterson, is a spin-off related by setting and characters to the Dragons series. Early in May of 2008, Bob went to sleep while resting and reading a Terry Pratchett novel, a sleep from which he did not awaken. His passing is mourned by his many fans and friends.

New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin, with Eric Del Carlo and Teresa Patterson, delves into the dark secrets of the New Orleans French Quarter in this suspenseful tale of murder and revenge, justice and unexpected courage.

Mystery Scene Magazine - Betty Webb

Asprin's sensuous descriptions bring the neighborhood alive with scents of hot asphalt, stale beer, sugared beignets, and bloated corpses. Temperance types might want to forgo its booze-soaked pages, but the only shortcoming in this love song to a cursed and blessed city is that (unlike New Orleans itself) it finally ends.