Book description
DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS LIMITED-TIME DISCOUNT ON BOOK ONE OF
THE SERIES.
Return to the world of the Farseers…
Robin Hobb's best loved characters, Fitz , The Fool and Nighteyes the
wolf, face new adventures and trials in the first book of The Tawny Man trilogy.
When Assassin's Quest closed, Fitz was living in self-imposed exile.
Wracked with pain, he had chosen to discard the magical gifts that had
seen him survive the wonders and torments of navigating the legendary
city of the Elderlings, and of raising a dragon.
Now, in this the first of a trilogy, we are returned to the world of
the Six Duchies and the lives of those who managed to survive the events
of the first Assassin trilogy.
Fifteen years have passed and events are about to sweep Fitz out of his
quiet backwater life and into the main political current again.
Persecution of the Witted has become rampant throughout the Six Duchies
despite Queen Kettricken's effort to damp it. The Witted themselves have
begun to strike back. So when 15 year old Prince Dutiful disappears, is
it only because he is nervous about his betrothal ceremony to an
Outislander princess, or has he been taken hostage by the Witted? Worse,
is he perhaps another 'Piebald Prince', a Farseer tainted by Wit magic?
As the desperate situation worsens, Kettricken has no choice but to
summon Fitz to Buckkeep, for who better to track the young prince down
than another gifted with the Wit, together with his bonded companion,
the wolf Nighteyes? 'Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers…
what makes her novels as addictive as morphine is not just their
imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and
manipulated by politics.'
The Times
Assassin's Apprentice:
'A gleaming debut'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Assassin's Quest:
'Assassin's Quest achieves a bittersweet, powerful complexity rare in
fantasy' LOCUS
'Robin Hobb writes achingly well'
SFX
Praise for The Liveship Traders series:
'Even better than the Assassin books. I didn't think that was possible'
George R R Martin
'Hobb is a remarkable storyteller.'
Guardian Robin Hobb was born in California in 1952 and majored in
Communications at Denver University, Colorado. Assassin's Apprentice was
her first novel, and was followed by the equally successful Royal
Assassin and Assassin's Quest. She lives outside Seattle, Washington.
