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The 400lb Gorilla

The Hipposync Archives #1 / 4
by DC Farmer
The 400lb Gorilla (The Hipposync Archives #1) by DC Farmer
★ 10.00 / 1
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Smashed up in a car accident, told that his missing girlfriend is a figment of an addled brain. Fate must be having a damned good laugh. She’s still laughing a year later when his girlfriend turns up looking ravishing and wanting to carry on where they almost fatally left off.

But he hasn’t bargained for the baggage that comes with Silvy. Like the fact she isn’t really an English language student, a girl, or even human.
Matt’s world is suddenly full of raving fanatics bent on human sacrifice, dimensionally challenged baked bean tins, a vulture with a penchant for profanity, and a security agent for the Department of Fae immigration called Kylah with the most amazing gold-flecked eyes.

He’s faced with a simple choice. Accept that everything he sees is a figment of his traumatised imagination or accept that it is all terrifyingly real. In which case he’s got a hell of a lot of catching up to do. Plus a whole hive of demonic zealots to fight. Will he bury his head in the sand or take up the challenge? After all, there’s nothing much at stake... except, of course, the future of the universe as we know it... in for The 400lb Gorilla: The first full-length novel in the Hipposync Archives.

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Release date: June 2014

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DC Farmer

DC Farmer

Dylan Young, D. C. Farmer, Rhys A. Jones, and Rhys Dylan are the same person.

Once a successful doctor of medicine, DC Farmer now works two days a week for the NHS and, thanks to the wonders of Krudian physics, the other nine days a week for Hipposync Enterprises, as a scribe.

Hipposync was established in the early fourteenth century as a purveyor and publisher of rare books, the sort of stuff you are not able to get elsewhere and which contains information as varied as how to guard your castle against the Hordes of Maltasub using Harpie blood and tar, and how to change a beetle into a useful toothpick.

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Of course, you will have gathered from all of this that Hipposync is, in fact, just a cover. What lurks beneath that thin veneer of respectability (yeah, right) is much, much more interesting. Hiding behind an office on the banks of the canal in Jericho, Oxford is the Department of Fimmigration (as in Fae immigration). Hey, there has to be one, otherwise just anyone could walk in, right?

DC’s role in documenting the work of the Fimmigration Service has, over the years, led to the realization that the world needs to know. Moreover, if he doesn’t tell someone soon he is going to burst. So, within these pages you will find actual accounts of the splendid work of the Fimmigration Service, beginning with The 400 Lb Gorilla – a sample of which is also on this site, and which will soon be published in its totality by Spence City once appropriate clearance from the ‘authorities’ has been obtained.

Some people say that this is contemporary fantasy fiction. Believe me, it’s real enough on planet hipposync.

DC Farmer is alive and well in darkest West Wales.

(From the author's website.)

The Hipposync Archives

The Hipposync Archives consists of four primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The 400lb Gorilla (The Hipposync Archives #1)
★ 10.00 / 1
Frivolous Pursuits (The Hipposync Archives #2)
★ 10.00 / 1
The Bewilderment (The Hipposync Archives #3)
★ 10.00 / 1
Grume (The Hipposync Archives #4)
Unrated
Every Little Evil (The Hipposync Archives)
★ 10.00 / 1


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