Immortal at the Edge of the World
Book 3 of the Immortal Series
by Gene Doucette
Release Date: October 2 , 2014
Published by The Writers Coffee Shop
Genre: FICTION/Fantasy/General & Fantasy/Contemporary
ISBN e-book: 978-1-61213-276-1
~~SUMMARY~~
“What I was currently doing with my time and money . . . didn’t really deserve anyone else’s attention. If I was feeling romantic about it, I’d call it a quest, but all I was really doing was trying to answer a question I’d been ignoring for a thousand years.”
In his very long life, Adam had encountered only one person who seemed to share his longevity: the mysterious red-haired woman. She appeared throughout history, usually from a distance, nearly always vanishing before he could speak to her.
In his last encounter, she actually did vanish—into thin air, right in front of him. The question was how did she do it? To answer, Adam will have to complete a quest he gave up on a thousand years earlier, for an object that may no longer exist.
If he can find it, he might be able to do what the red-haired woman did, and if he can do that, maybe he can find her again and ask her who she is . . . and why she seems to hate him.
“You are being watched. Move your loved ones to safety . . . trust nobody.”
But Adam isn’t the only one who wants the red-haired woman. There are other forces at work, and after a warning from one of the few men he trusts, Adam realizes how much danger everyone is in. To save his friends and finish his quest he may be forced to bankrupt himself, call in every favor he can, and ultimately trade the one thing he’d never been able to give up before: his life.
From the author of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal comes Immortal at the Edge of the World, the breathtaking conclusion to the best-selling trilogy. Will Adam survive?
~~ABOUT THE AUTHOR~~
Gene Doucette is the acclaimed author of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal, the sci-fi thriller Fixer, and (as G Doucette) the erotic horror thriller Sapphire Blue. He is also the author of multiple short stories-- including The Immortal Chronicles series-- is a prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, and a published humorist and essayist. He lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife and two children.
~~CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR~~
Praise for Immortal at the Edge of the World
"Brilliant end to the trilogy, with much twistiness involved in tying up all the plotlines. Lots of humour and typical Adam-ness - but no spoilers from me. You'll just have to read it for yourself. I think this might be my favourite of the series.+ - Andrea Goodreads Review
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GUEST POST
How important is humor in your work - do
you incorporate it all your novels?
300-600words
Great question! I don’t feel any pressure to be funny now at all!
Humor is something I’ve always been good at—along with my staggering
humility—and the first kind of writing I cared to show
off. I wrote fake interviews for my
school paper when I was in seventh grade (I interviewed a dog once, and a tree)
and in eighth grade started a novel that was probably more like Hitchhiker’s Guide fan fiction, and wrote a humor column for my high school
paper. It didn’t take me very long to find my voice, in other
words, and that voice was deeply sarcastic.
It wasn’t until
college that I realized I needed to learn how to tone that voice down. This discovery was made after a play I had
written was produced. The play was
called Habeas Corpus and it was, by all accounts, a dreadfully serious
examination of how people cope with death.
Yet people laughed through many parts of it—although
thankfully not the very last part, which included the sentence “but
dead bodies don’t bleed!”—and the
reviewer called the play “darkly comic”.
Since then I’ve spent
a lot of time trying to figure out how to not be funny. And when that’s proven impossible I’ve tried working how to be
funny only on purpose. Eventually
I figured out how useful humor could be in a serious story.
There’s a
Hitchcock film called Family Plot in which two characters discover, on
descending a steep mountain pass, that their car’s brake line has been cut and they can’t stop.
But they were coming from a restaurant at the top of that mountain, and
they’d been drinking, so the scene
of the descent goes between the intense drama of the husband trying to navigate
the car without dying, and the hysterically laughing wife in the passenger seat
who thinks this is incredibly funny. It’s a roller coaster, where the
funny part (unless you are a sociopath the wife is the funny part of this
story) makes the dramatic part that much more intense.
This is pretty much how I’ve gone about using humor in my more serious writing, by which I
mean all my fiction. Adam, my immortal
narrator, is profoundly sarcastic and sometimes funnier than I am—which
is kind of weird—but when he’s serious there’s no question about it.
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