The Way of Shadows

The perfect assassin has no friends, but goals

<<Get up, kid. It’s time to kill.>>

Assassination is an art, and Durzo Blint executes it perfectly. Even the powerful Sa’kagé, the criminal organization that controls the strings of the city of Cenaria, respects him.

For Azoth, an orphan raised in the streets, the only way to escape the misery and fear that have always accompanied him is to be feared rather than fear, kill before being killed. If he wants to survive he must convince Blint to accept him as an apprentice. But learning to assassinate with the best requires more than hard training. You have to change your identity, forget the past and what you believed. You must learn to move like shadows in a world of wonders where nobles, commoners and criminals are merely part of an item that has just begun.

Shadow's Edge

The perfect assassin has no name, but a thousand faces

<<Tell them that the Angel of the Night is walking. Tell them that justice has arrived.>>

After the death of Durzo Blint, his teacher, and Logan, his best friend and rightful heir to the throne, Kylar Stern feels that nothing binds him to Cenaria, a country subject to the whims of the god king invasor Garoth Ursuul. While fires and looting take over the metropolis, while thousands of refugees escape and militia prepares to fire, Kylar decides to give up his old profession, raise a family and turn his life around.

However, the news that Logan is alive, hidden in the worst prisons, puts Kylar in a difficult situation: his talent as an assassin could save a friend and an entire country, but… at what price?



Beyond the Shadows

The perfect assassin has no conscience, but a mission

<<Was the Angel of the night, perhaps the only man in the world that you should really fear.>>

The oppressor is dead and his army has been defeated. The rebelion of the people of Cenaria has triumphed, but at a high cost. The country is in ruins, and the survivors could  barely defend themselves. Hunger and pespair take over the kingdom.

To prevent a civil war, Logan, the rightful heir gives the throne to one of the nobles who led the rebel cause. Meanwhile, in the north, stands a new god-king. His plan in crazy, but if he pull it off no one can ever stop him.

Kylar must prepare for his last adventure. To save his friends (and his enemies) must do the impossible: assassinate a goddess. If he fails, condemn half a continent. If he succeeds, he may lose the only thing that makes life worth living.

BRENT WEEKS

Brent Weeks, born (1977-03-07) March 7, 1977 (age 35), is an American author living and writing in Oregon. Born in Montana, Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English. After brief stints teaching and bartending, he devoted himself to writing full time.

Weeks' first work, The Night Angel Trilogy, was published by Orbit Books. The trilogy centers on the orphan Azoth, who becomes a professional wetboy after training with the fabled wetboy Durzo Blint. Night Angel garnered success by making the New York Times bestseller list. It has seen multiple printings and been translated in numerous languages.

Brent's latest book, The Black Prism, is a part of the The Lightbringer series.



The trilogy of the Angel of the Night takes us to the dangerous and ruthless world of Midcyru, a place populated by hitmen, kings crazed, powerful sorcerers perverse killers and where to take the wrong decision can cost the life or soul, but where an orphan who lives on the streets can mean the difference between freedom and the destruction.

Kylar is one of those orphans who look fearful every corner - you never know where you will arrive the next coup - while they dream leave behind poverty, hunger and fear that prevailing in the low funds. Their only hope is that you accept him as an apprentice the best performer of all time, the legendary and feared Durzo Blint. But his training will only be the beginning of an exciting adventure that will depend on the fate of the world.

Full of intrigue, magic and intense action, the trilogy of the Angel of the night it is a journey without brakes to a world where power is exercised both in the palaces such as in the alleys, where treachery and deception are commonplace, where there is to be the fastest, the strongest and the most hard to have any chance of survival and where each decision involves sacrifice. During their three volumes, we'll take you to Kylar by his childhood as a beggar and a robber, his consecration as executor, their struggles, their dilemmas and their sacrifices. Accompanied by a varied and interesting cast of characters, Kylar undertakes in this story the greatest adventure of all, whose impact will change forever the world in which they lived.

The heroism and cowardice, the nobility and the betrayals, the glory and infamy coexist in this exciting story narrated in three volumes, which - if someone is able to resist the temptation - can also be read independently. Written with the style quick, visual, dark and without concessions of Brent Weeks, the history of the Angel of the Night will leave no reader indifferent.