Tom Holt's exceedingly comic fantasies are populated with evil goblins, annoying sprites and ordinary people. Ordinary people who get mixed up in the most extraordinaryly complex and unbelievable circumstances, much to their dismay ... The action rushes up, swirls around in a dizzying fashion, then engulfs the reader in an engrossing world. In the words of TIME OUT, the result is truly 'dazzling'.