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Doc Sidhe

Name: Doc Sidhe
Rating: 3.7 (946 reviews)
Author: Aaron Allston

Aaron Allston May 1, 1995

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Olympic kickboxer Harris Greene’s career has just self-destructed, and both his manager and his fiance, Gaby, have dumped him. While looking for Gaby, he interrupts a bizarre trio as they are kidnapping her, and he is hurled into another, very weird, universe. His only hope is Doc Sidhe, this Art Deco universe’s greatest champion of justice.

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