Highfire -- Eoin Colfer

<p><strong>"<em>True Detective</em> meets <em>Swamp Thing</em> in the Artemis Fowl author's neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana." --<em>Guardian</em><em></em></strong></p><p><strong>From the </strong><em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><strong> bestselling author of the </strong><em><strong>Artemis Fowl</strong></em><strong> series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, </strong><em><strong>Flashdance-</strong></em><strong>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.</strong><br/><br/>In 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 Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a <em>Flashdance </em>T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie--now he goes by Vern. However...he has survived, unlike the rest. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. Vern's glory days are long gone. Or are they?</p><p>A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett "Squib" Moreau does what he can to sur