The Curse of the Thrax - Book Review


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the-curse-of-the-thrax.jpg The Curse of the Thrax is a story about a young teenage boy named Jaykriss. His father has been killed by the mythical Thrax--a dragon with monster like features-scales and gnarly sword like teeth. At this point, Jaykriss' life changes dramatically. He now has the duties in the family that before had been his dad's. His mother becomes very depressed and isn't functioning in her everyday life. Up until this time Jaykriss had been a typical teenager--girls, sports and school. Jaykriss feels he must kill The Thrax--but how. He meets a hermit who plays a huge role in educating Jaykriss in ancient times, dragons, etc. After studying the ancient books and the teachings of the hermit, Jaykriss believes he is the one to slay the Thrax and save humankind. You will thoroughly enjoy the adventures of Jaykriss and his best friend Marda. These young men have quite the adventures ahead of them. The Curse of the Thrax is adventurous, historical and scientific. Book 1 of the The Bloodsword Trilogy

About Mark Murphy


murphy-mark.jpg Mark Murphy has been a doctor since 1988. He has been a writer his entire life. After spending his early childhood roaming the marshes and maritime forests of coastal Georgia --where he collected seashells and arrowheads and fancied himself a swashbuckler of the highest order?and reading anything he could get his hands on, Mark entered the creative literary world by winning a local poetry contest in the fifth grade. Later that year, he wrote, directed and starred in his own play about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and started his own self-published classroom newspaper. It was the high-water mark for Murphy's elementary school literary career. In high school, Mark served as Editor of the high school newspaper and won a few awards for his editorials, critical reviews, short stories and poetry. He also attempted several times to start a novel, but got nowhere. When he enrolled at the University of Georgia as a journalism major, he seemed destined for a literary career. But he loved science. And he missed science. As a Zoology major, Mark planned to become the next Jacques Cousteau. However, a year or so tossing about on the Atlantic in a converted shrimp trawler, a leaky vessel that stank of diesel and dead fish, made him realize that he did not want to be the next Jacques Cousteau (or the first one, for that matter). Instead, he decided to go to medical school. During his medical training at the Medical College of Georgia and UNC-Chapel Hill, Mark took care of a dying sitcom star, a fallen tele-evangelist, and a serial killer, among others. In doing so, he realized that medicine afforded physicians with a unique perspective into peoples' lives--an observation that would serve him well later. In 1994, Mark returned to his hometown of Savannah, Georgia to start a medical practice that would ultimately become the largest gastroenterology group in South Georgia. The untimely death of a close friend led him to write a short story, The Funeral, which was published in 2004. Mark then attended the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and began writing a well-received opinion column in his hometown newspaper, the Savannah Morning News. In 2012, he published his first novel, a critically-acclaimed thriller entitled "The Shadow Man." Mark lives in Savannah and is married to Daphne, his high school sweetheart. They have two grown children and a menagerie of semi-wild animals?but no dragons. At least, not yet



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