"Esther M. Friesner - Sphynxes Wild" - читать интересную книгу автора (Friesner Esther M)

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December 27, 2006


THE SPHYNX IS BACKтАФand she's not happy. In the human guise of a beautiful Greek
shipping heiress, she's arrived in America with a new set of riddles guaranteed to
obliterate mankind. And what better place to start than an Atlantic City casino, where
trickery and murder will go completely unnoticed.
But the soul-thirsty sphynx hasn't counted on crossing paths with Sanchi, a casino
worker once touched by magic. More than chance has brought him to the city of lost
fortunes and dreams. Now he's in the middle of a battle between the sphynx and the last
true sorcerer, the climax of a centuries-long war in which Sanchi will play the most crucial
role of allтАж



Sphynxes Wild
Esther M. Friesner
IT FADES, IT FLIES, IT LIVES, IT DIESтАж
The shell of darkness and light the sphynx had conjured around herself and her victim
pulsed with the power of the Riddle. If he answered correctly, she would lose, as she had
lost only once before the sorcerer had bound her.
But this one was no sorcerer. He was like all of them she had stalked since escaping her
magical prison.
"Answer me," she said, leaning toward him, the gilded fingernails beginning to curve
into tiny sickles. The power of the Riddle held him captive. Through it she began to sense
the draining of his spirit into hers as the unanswered riddle drank him down.
"I am not human," she said aloud as she knelt beside his corpse. Her body crouched,
furred and winged and taloned, freed of her human disguise. "I am mercifulтАж"



contents
Prolog
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER EIGHT