Description:
Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates. Gorm is horrified to discover a liche pitching the frightened city-dwellers on the merits of the undead lifestyle...at the head of a corpse army.
To save the city from high-pressure sales tactics and an inevitable siege, the dwarf warrior and his misfit band hatch a harebrained scheme that lands them at the top of the king's kill list. With death and dark magic on his heels, Gorm must craft his own pitch to round up the troops and put the undead snake-oil salesman and his army of pushers permanently out of business.
Son of a Liche is the second book in The Dark Profit Saga, a trilogy of humorous epic fantasy novels. If you like rib-tickling shenanigans, second-rate heroes, and imaginative new takes on tired tropes, then you'll love J. Zachary Pike's hilarious blend of finance and high fantasy.
Brief description: J. ZACHARY PIKE was once a basement-dwelling fantasy gamer, but over time he metamorphosed into a basement-dwelling fantasy writer. His debut novel, Orconomics: A Satire, won the 4th Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off and a National Indie Excellence Award for Humor. He has written and directed several award-winning shorts, including Zelig Award winner The Toll and Endurance Challenge: Mordred's Isle starring Billy West. A New Englander by birth and by temperament, Zack writes strangely funny fiction on the seacoast of New Hampshire
Review Quotes: "I can't stress again how fantastic I found this book... All in all, this is probably my favorite read this year... Its that good."--The Bookwyrm Speaks