Troop's youngest grandson, Levi Daniel Foster, already shows the same disturbing predilection toward dragons as his grandfather.
Alan F. Troop's poems, essays, short stories and articles have appeared in Fort Lauderdale's SUNSHINE magazine, Miami's TROPIC magazine and a number of national publications.  His first novel, The Dragon DelaSangre , was named  as ONE OF THE TOP TEN HORROR NOVELS ... IN RECENT YEARS by Booklist Magazine.

A Host of Dragons  - The fourth book in The Dragon DelaSangre series, is now available at your local book store and online! From Penguin Putnam's Roc books.

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... This fast-paced adventure does not disappoint;  Troop's DelaSangre series continues to impress and delight, raising the bar for inventive fantasy.  Booklist Magazine Review.

 

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Ever since his return from Andros Island, a little over two years before, Peter DelaSangre has struggled to overcome the rift that has opened between him and his beloved Chloe. But a strange boat anchored off their private island, a mysterious sytranger at their dock on the mainland and a kidnapping attempt on their young daughter portend even more serious problems for both him and his family.

Ouder Raad Investering, a foreign corporation, make matters worse by launching a financial assault on LaMar Associates, the DelaSangree family's wealthy corporation. Ordinarily, Peter would use his considerable wealth and special powers to squash any such attempt but he finds himself facing opponents just as wealthy and just as powerful as him - and much more numerous than he ever suspected.

Presented with demands he can't satisfy, Peter has to find a way to defeat a superior force or lose everyone he loves and everthing he has - including his own life.

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When a series of killings and disappearances occur on the waters near Miami, an unscrupulous newspaper publisher focuses the blame on Peter DelaSangre.  Innocent and unfairly accused, anxious to protect his wife and children from his sudden notoriety, Peter has to think of a way to clear his name without his true identity - that of a dragon and shapechanger - being discovered.  A race of seadragons as ancient as his own race complicates this task by insisting on revenge for wrongs done to them centuries before by Peter's father.  In a struggle that ranges from Miami to the Bahamas and back - on land and in the air and both above and below the sea - Peter must find a way to save his reputation, his marriage and his life..


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Peter DelaSangre is like no dragon you have read about before!.

 

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Peter DelaSangre has it all - wealth, looks, power, even his own private island off the coast of Miami - everything, that is, except for a woman of his own kind, a dragon and a shape changer like him.

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While Peter DelaSangre has never once doubted the human race's capacity for treachery, he never has expected to encounter it in his own kind.  Betrayed by other dragons, he finds he must struggle to retain all he owns - as well as to fight for the lives of his mate and child and to battle for his own survival.

"ONE OF THE TOP TEN HORROR NOVELS ... in recent years". Booklist Magazine August, 2002.

"BRILLIANT...Troop takes the loneliness, angst, and eroticism so often found in the works of Anne Rice and weaves them into a new kind of misunderstood monster.  Push aside the vampires and werewolves... and enter the dragon."

- Christopher Golden , Author of Straight On 'Til Morning

"The Dragon DelaSangre is the most original fantasy I've read in years, its strength coming in no small part from Alan Troop's ability to deliver a sympathetic but distinctly nonhuman protagonist.   Just when I thought there was nothing new in contemporary fantasy, along comes Alan Troop's terrific The Dragon DelaSangre to prove me wrong!  I love this book!"

- Tanya Huff , Author of The Second Summoning