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toys

• Deathstalker
• Hawk and Fisher
• Nightside
• Secret Histories
• The Twilight of the Empire (prelude to the Deathstalker series)
• the Forest Kingdom series which is set in the same continuity as Hawk and Fisher.
• Ghost Finders

• Drinking Midnight Wine
• Shadows Fall

This writer provides examples of:

• Angels, Devils and Squid
• Author Appeal: Expect a love of The Sixties to crop up in any modern fantasy series he writes.
• Batman Cold Open: All three of the modern fantasy works have employed this.
• Battle Couple:
• Canon Welding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
• Catch Phrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when I say variations on the first one, he's gotten pretty damn creative. Also, he loves to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
  • blank always lies; unless the truth hurts more.
  • Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
  • Ah, the old jokes are the best.
  • But then, you would say that, wouldn't you.
• Deus ex Machina: Frequent and unashamed.
• Rule Of Cool: done in all of his works
• The World Is Always Doomed