The Fire-Breathing Foe is a Lovian fantasy novel by William Goodwin, published February 1, 2009 by Goodread Publishings. The book is the first part of a trilogy centering around a boy named F'ril and his adventures as a dragonslayer. In The Fire-Breathing Foe F'ril, a farmer's son, decides to fight the dragon terrorizing his village with the help of an old female outcast.