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On Sale: Jan 17, 2023
Page Count: 592 pages
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN-13: 9780316528160

A modern classic of epic fantasy, New York Times bestseller The Way of Shadows is the first volume in the multi-million copy selling Night Angel Trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint.

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art — and he is the city's most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly — and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics — and cultivate a flair for death.

The Night Angel Trilogy
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows

Night Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus)
Perfect Shadow
The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel

For more from Brent Weeks, check out:

The Kylar Chronicles
Night Angel Nemesis

Lightbringer
The Black Prism
The Blinding Knife
The Broken Eye
The Blood Mirror
The Burning White

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"Brent Weeks is so good it's starting to tick me off."
Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Spear on The Night Angel Trilogy
"Weeks cleverly continues the fantasy saga... Weeks keeps the plot moving, despite the book’s length, and makes it easy for newcomers to get engaged in this world. Fantasy fans who like roguish antiheroes will want to check this out."
Publishers Weekly on Night Angel Nemesis
“Weeks writes in an inescapably engaging style.”
Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter
“Weeks is a giant of the genre.”
Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld
“Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time.”
British Fantasy Society
“Brent Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it’s done for over fifteen years.”
Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Spear
"Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. He doesn't allow you to look away."
Robin Hobb on The Black Prism
"Packed with all of the rich characterization, political intrigue, frenetic action, and clever color-based magic a fantasy lover could ask for, it may even be the best of the lot."
B&N Reads: Best of the Year on The Burning White
"Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks."
Brian McClellan, author of Promise of Blood on The Black Prism
"Weeks manages to ring new tunes on...old bells, letting a deep background slowly reveal its secrets and presenting his characters in a realistically flawed and human way."
Publishers Weekly on The Black Prism

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Brent Weeks

About the Author

In a small-town Montana school at age twelve, Brent Weeks met the two great loves of his life. Edgar Allan Poe introduced him to the power of literature to transcend time and death and loneliness. Fate introduced him to The Girl, Kristi Barnes. He began to pursue each immediately. The novel was a failure. The Girl shot him down. Since then—skipping the boring parts— Brent has written eight bestselling novels with The Night Angel Trilogy and the Lightbringer series, won several industry awards, and sold a few million books. Brent and his wife, Kristi, live in Oregon with their two daughters. (Yeah, he married The Girl.)

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