The Man With the Golden Torc
core novel 2007 The Nightside / Secret Histories
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (10,455 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 393 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451461452 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Edward "Eddie" Drood has spent years as a field agent for the Droods, a secretive family that has protected humanity from supernatural threats for centuries from behind the scenes, using golden battle armor called a torc. Summoned home from an assignment, Eddie is abruptly declared rogue by the family's ruling Matriarch and marked for death without being told why. Forced to flee the only life and family he has known, he must turn to old enemies, criminals, and outcasts he once fought in order to survive and uncover who set him up. As he digs into the conspiracy, Eddie is drawn into a much larger secret history of hidden powers operating beneath the ordinary world, one that implicates the very family he thought he could trust.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Nightside / Secret Histories
- Series: Secret Histories core; position 1 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Simon R. Green
Notes
- From the series record (Secret Histories): Follows the Drood family of secret agent-sorcerers; a separate urban-fantasy sequence from this same author's already-admitted Nightside series, with its own cast and premise (occasional cross-references between the two exist but neither series requires the other to be read).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Secret Histories: position 1 of 12: next Daemons Are Forever (2008)
- Internal chronology, within The Nightside / Secret Histories: position 2 of 24: previous Something from the Nightside (2003) · next Agents of Light and Darkness (2003)
Sources
← The Nightside / Secret Histories dossier · All universes
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