Perfect Shadow

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By Brent Weeks

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For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks’s blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy’s most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel.

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He’s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he’s worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he’s become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.
But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world’s finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he’s ever believed in.

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  • "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
  • "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
  • "The Lightbringer series is great fun. Nobody does break-neck pacing and amazingly-executed plot twists like Brent Weeks."
    Brian McClellan, author of Promise of Blood
  • "His plot feels like an orchestrated chess match between genius grandmasters."
    Publishers Weekly on The Broken Eye
  • "The Blinding Knife is a wonderful work of high fantasy with engaging characters facing the perfect antagonists, set in a creatively-wrought and increasingly chaotic world brimful of imaginative magic and interesting politics. Weeks holds fast to the traditions of his genre while adding a compelling new flavor."
    The Ranting Dragon
  • "One of the best epic fantasies I've ever read."
    Staffer's Book Review on The Blinding Knife
  • "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
  • "...A solid, entertaining yarn."
    The Onion A.V. Club on The Black Prism
  • "One of the best Fantasy books of 2012!"
    A Dribble of Ink on The Blinding Knife

On Sale
Nov 7, 2017
Page Count
144 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316477406

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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