A hardboiled heist novel set in an America the dragons have owned for a thousand years — dark urban fantasy with crime-novel nerve.

Dragon jobs never end well. That is why Clem has a simple rule … never, ever take on dragon job.

But Clem, an aging safecracker with a limb and perhaps one last job left in him does not really have much of a choice when he is offered one last opportunity.

The score is simple enough. Walk into a dragon’s territory, grab and walk out (preferably in one piece). And for this he will get paid more than enough to disappear forever. The catch: everything.

So, beings a heist story unlike any other set in a 1970s Detroit that you have never seen before. It is a journey through the underbelly of a beast teeming with colorful characters selling curses out of dead storefronts, old ladies hawking getaway plans and nursery rhymes that are coded survival manuals.

The world has belonged to Dragons, but Clem has always believed that it does not have to stay that way, and he is about to bet his life on that.

One man. One gun. One very big lizard.

American Dragon is a hardboiled standalone riding the wings of dark urban fantasy (albeit with Dragons). Ideal for readers of The Tainted Cup and The Hexologists, Zach Hines — screenwriter and author of Nine — writes like a match dropped in gasoline.