Stands a Shadow (Heart of the World).

Buchanan, Col.

ISBN 10: 0765331063 / ISBN 13: 9780765331069

Published by Tor Books, 2011

About this Item

hardcover, minor wear to dust jacket, binding tight and pages bright, a nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stands a Shadow (Heart of the World).
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765331063
• ISBN 13: 9780765331069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Synopsis

In Farlander, the first book of the Heart of the World series, readers met Ash, an aging master assassin of the famed order of Roshun, and his apprentice Nico, a boy who always managed to be in the wrong place at the right time. Ash and Nico, one with failing health and the other with little training, were sent on a suicidal mission to fulfill a contract against the favored son of the Holy Matriarch, the ruler of Mann. The assassination of the Matriarch's son maintained the honor and reputation of the Roshun, but further destabilized a nation already beset by strife. For Ash, fulfilling the contract came at an enormous personal cost.Now in Stands a Shadow, driven by grief and anger, Ash embarks on a journey that takes him through the Free Ports and towards the embattled city of Bar-Khos. He arrives at the city as the Holy Matriarch of Mann orders her forces to breach the walls of Bar-Khos and bring it under her control. Renouncing the ways of the Roshun,

About the Author

COL BUCHANAN lives in Lancaster, England. Farlander was his debut novel, and the first novel in the Heart of the World series.