title: Bacon Finnegan: The Sword of Fire (The Artifacts of Merlin Saga)
author: T. A. Northburg
description: <span>While there are many books trying to mimic Harry Potter, author T.A. Northburg tries to bring a different twist to magic and wizardry<span> </span>by combining several elements like adventure, fantasy, mystery and sci-fi. This is one of the few books that expand on Merlin's lineage.</span>
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  _There was already a fourth arrow on the string of his bow, but it wouldn’t_
  _be needed now, and—_
  
  —Bayrd took one look, yelped, and dropped it. The arrow went end-for-end to
  the ground and drove a little way in under its own weight, then toppled slowly
  sideways and lay there.
  
  It was sizzling.
  
  Wreathed from nock to point in a slowly fluttering scarf of blue flame, it was
  making a sound absolutely like that of frying bacon. Every now and then the
  barbed head spat fat white sparks that went dancing across the sand, as though
  it was still red-hot under the hammer of the smith who had forged it eight
  months before. And yet the wooden shaft wasn’t charred, the blue and white
  feathers of the fletching weren’t shrivelled by the flames. It just lay there.
  
  Sizzling…
  
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  _**Novels by Peter Morwood**_
  
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  The ‘Horse Lords’ Series __
  
  _The Horse Lord •_ _The Demon Lord_ _The Dragon Lord_ • _The War Lord_
  (forthcoming: _The Shadow Lord)_
  
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  The ‘Clan Wars’ Sequence
  
  _Greylady