From the NY Times bestselling writer of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult book in regards to 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 using a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff.

In the times of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs-now he hides from swamp tour boats and increases only with about Highfire: A Novel the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent open fire breather has been reduced to light Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix inside a angling shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts all over as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie-now he goes on Vern. Nevertheless…he has survived, unlike the others. He is the final of his kind, the last dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten primary. Vern’s glory days are over. Or are they?

A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he may to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly solitary mother. He’s finally made a decision to work for a shady smuggler-but on his 1st evening, he witnesses his employer murdered with a crooked constable.

Regence Hooke isn’t just a dirty cop, he’s a despicable individual being-who happens to want Squib’s momma in the worst type of method. When Hooke goes after his concealed witness using a grenade launcher, Squib discovers himself airlifted from specific loss of life by…a dragon?

The swamp could make strange bedfellows, and instead of be fried alive therefore the dragon will keep his secret, Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as his go-between (aka familiar)-fetch his vodka, maintain him firm, etc.-in exchange for protection from Hooke. Shortly the three of these are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation. There’s about to be a fiery reckoning, in which either dragons finally proceed extinct-or Vern’s glory times are back.

A triumphant go back to the genre-bending illusion that Eoin Colfer is so popular for, Highfire is an effortlessly clever and relentlessly funny tour-de-force of comedy and actions.