Fools Assassin (Fitz and the Fool)

Hobb, Robin

ISBN 10: 0007444176 / ISBN 13: 9780007444175

Published by Harper Voyager, UK, 2014

About this Item

Very good condition with a little edge wear to the dust jacket including a small nick to the fold and stain to the top edge with continues to the inside of jacket. Pages clean and tight. More info/photos on request.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1753374555366

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fools Assassin (Fitz and the Fool)
• Publisher: Harper Voyager, UK
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007444176
• ISBN 13: 9780007444175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Molly these many years, the estate a reward to his family for loyal service to the crown. But behind the facade of respectable middle-age lies a turbulent and violent past. For Tom Badgerlock is actually FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the Farseer line, convicted user of Beast-magic, and assassin. A man who has risked much for his king and lost more...On a shelf in his den sits a triptych carved in memory stone of a man, a wolf and a fool. Once, these three were inseparable friends: Fitz, Nighteyes and the Fool. But one is long dead, and one long-missing. Then one Winterfest night a messenger arrives to seek out Fitz, but mysteriously disappears, leaving nothing but a blood-trail. What was the message? Who was the sender? And what has happened to the messenger? Suddenly Fitz's violent old life erupts into the peace of his new world, and nothing and no one is safe.

About the Author

Robin Hobb is one of the world's finest writers of epic fiction.She was born in California in 1952 but raised in Alaska, where she learned how to raise a wolf cub, to skin a moose and to survive in the wilderness. When she married a fisherman who fished herring and the Kodiak salmon-run for half the year, these skills would stand her in good stead. She raised her family, ran a smallholding, delivered post to her remote community, all at the same time as writing stories and novels. She succeeded on all fronts, raising four children and becoming an internationally best-selling writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington State.