title: Live and Let Drood: A Secret Histories Novel
author:  Simon R. Green 
description: A terrific, adventurous blend of genres, delivering high-octane heroism on a road lined with razor blades.<i>SF Revu</i><br /><br />A fresh thriller.<i>Genre Go Round Reviews</i>
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  ## Live and let Drood
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Secret histories - 6 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Simon R. Green
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Simon R. Green
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Live and let Drood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  Home Is Where the Heart Breaks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You think you know where your life is going. You think you ve got everything
  sorted out. You ve defeated your enemies, saved the world, made peace with
  your family and gone on holiday with the woman you love. And then you discover
  what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn
  your life upside down. That there s nothing you can have, nothing you ve
  earned, nothing you ve paid for with blood and loss and suffering that the
  world can t take away from you.
  
  
  I stood before all that remained of my home, Drood Hall, and all I could think
  of was how it used to look. How it had looked all my life. A huge, sprawling
  old manor house dating back to the time of the Tudor k