{"product_id":"highfire-a-novel","title":"Highfire: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author’s neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.”—The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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—now available as a limited limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 La-Z-Boy recliner. Wyvern, Lord Highfire, of the Highfire Eyrie, who once struck fear in hearts far and wide, is reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binge-watching Netflix in a fishing shack. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon, yet no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVern’s glory days are long gone—or are they? A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he can to survive. He’s finally decided to work for a shady smuggler—but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by crooked constable Regence Hooke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Hooke goes after his hidden witness with a grenade launcher, Squib finds himself most unexpectedly rescued by a real live dragon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe swamp can make strange bedfellows, and Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as Vern’s go-between in exchange for protection from Hooke. Soon the three are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation in which dragons either finally become extinct—or Vern’s glory days are back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe full set of books in the 2026 Olive Editions series include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett\u003cbr\u003e * Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin\u003cbr\u003e * Island by Aldous Huxley\u003cbr\u003e * Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank\u003cbr\u003e * The Princess Bride by William Goldman\u003cbr\u003e * The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker\u003cbr\u003e * Highfire by Eoin Colfer\u003cbr\u003e * The World Wasn’t Ready for You by Justin Key\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53777383096627,"sku":"9780063570832","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9780063570832.jpg?v=1785548965","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/highfire-a-novel","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}