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    <body><![CDATA[Edwin Drood has more gadgets than you can imagine: golden armor, a portable door, a self-aiming gun with never-ending bullets, and much more. <br/><br/>But he also has more problems than you can shake a stick at. He's the supernatural answer to James Bond, and he's just been declared rogue. Now ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46664523">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the <em>Deathstalker</em> and <em>Nightside</em> series comes a new kind of hero in an old kind of war.    <p><em>All those things you hear about as a kid? The boogeyman under the bed? The creature in the closet? They're for real, people.</em>    <p>Eddie Drood knows they're for real. His family has kept humanity safe from the things that go bump in the night. For ages, they've held back the nightmares, locked the doors, barred the gates, and put righteous boot to monster arse on a nightly basis.     <p>But now Eddie's in trouble. One of his own has convinced the rest of the family that Eddie's become a menace, and that humanity needs to be protected from him. So he's on the run, using every trick in the book, magical and otherwise, hoping he lives long enough to prove his innocence. And he knows how dangerous the Droods can be-because he's one of them</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I liked this book very much. It was more substantive than his Nightside series (which I also like, but not quite as well). It wasn't quite as dark, also. It felt a bit more like a combo of the action in his Deathstalker space opera with the horror/dark fantasy of the Nightside books. More h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35264117">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After discovering Simon R. Green through his Nightside series, I was looking forward to this new series.  While <em>The Man With the Golden Torc</em> is occasionally entertaining, overall I was underwhelmed.<br/><br/>The culprit in this case is a repetitiveness on the part of the author.  He reuses certain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59367663">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable...lots of fun.  An interesting hybrid of spy/mystery/fantasy.  As other reviewers have mentioned, it was like Harry Dresden crossed with James Bond.<br/><br/>My thought on reading it is that it would have better functioned as a graphic novel due to the rapid pace and minimal exposition. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62678580">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the first book that I've read from this author, but I certainly will be reading other books in the series. The book is filled with little &quot;in-jokes&quot; including the titles in the series, but the &quot;in-jokes&quot; are an extra. They aren't the basis of the plot line.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69612184">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh, never really got off the ground. At least it was consistent to the end.<br/><br/>So far this is barely holding my interest.  It's barely better than Green's usual &quot;look at me and my oh so great wacky ideas that I don't really feel the need to fold into a coherent story&quot; crap.  Perha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63285572">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Two words...awesome book<br/><br/>To me it was between a dime-store detective and a James Bond novel. The characters are colorful and fun.  This is not a book to be taken care of.  I love books that make me laugh and snicker all the way through.  The story was engaging with a nice twist at the end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42979669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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