The Man with the Golden Torc

By Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal

Book Overview

New York Times bestselling author Simon Green introduces a new kind of hero, one who fights the good fight against some very old foes in the first novel in the Secret Histories series. The name's Bond. Shaman Bond. Actually, that's just his cover. His real name is Eddie Drood, but when your job includes a license to kick supernatural arse on a regular basis, you find your laughs where you can. For centuries, his family has been the secret guardian of Humanity, all that stands between all of you and all of the really nasty things that go bump in the night. As a Drood field agent he wore the golden torc, he killed monsters, and he protected the world. He loved his job. Right up to the point where his own family declared him rogue for no reason. Now, the only people who can help Eddie prove his innocence are the people he used to consider his enemies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451462149
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 1.0" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Big screen adventure in book form

I read Green's Blue Moon Rising years ago, and it was an instant favorite. I'm not sure why I never read anything else by him, but when I saw another book by him in a used book store I picked it realizing it was part of the Secret Histories series. I grabbed this one so that I could start the series at the beginning. I really loved this book. I read fiction and mainly fantasy, because I want to be entertained and the less...

Love that golden torc

No need to give a plot summary--others have done that. I have been a great fan of Jim Butcher's DRESDEN FILES, and only a couple of pages into THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TORC we are SUDDENLY in the same kind of world...London version, with Edwin Drood a field agent for the most powerful family on earth. They just work behind the scenes, sort of. Others here have mentioned how they felt this new series is a rehash, or revision,...

One Wild Ride

The title and name (argh! Shaman Bond!!!) is meant to slap one in the face to bring it to your attention that this is some sort of supernatural take-off on the Bond/Spy thing. It was almost enough to make me stop reading, but not quite. Like the Bond films, we meet our hero in the midst of a mission... lots violence and gun-toting action that pretty much continues non-stop, facing greater and greater odds and organizations...

"I still serve, but in my own way."

With THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TORC, it looks like British sci-fi/fantasy author Simon R. Green is set to embark on yet another tremendous and nutty series. With the sequel to this one being tongue-in-cheeked titled DAEMONS ARE FOREVER, we easily note the Ian Fleming connection. But the James Bond ties are tenuous, at best. True, the lead character is a superspy, but that's about the only thing Edwin Drood and 007 share in common...

A Dark and Witty Mash-up of Early James Bond and the Supernatural

Take James Bond, add a pinch of James Dean, sprinkle in a bit of irony, enrobe in impregnable living armor (the Golden Torc) and you have Eddie Drood - the hero of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TORC. The Drood Family has been charged with protecting humanity from ill-intentioned supernatural creatures. Eddie, the black sheep of the family, just wants to do his job as a field agent. He couldn't care less about power or family...