2018 BookNest Fantasy Awards Finalist for Best Novel
"This book has everything I love: Clean, crisp worldbuilding. Characters
that live and breathe. A story that teases and surprises me. I like
Master Assassins so much I wish I'd written it, but deep down, I know
I couldn't have written it this well."--#1 New York Times bestselling
author Patrick Rothfuss
Two village boys mistaken for assassins become the decisive figures in
the battle for a continent in the thrilling new desert-based epic
fantasy by the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy.
Kandri Hinjuman was never meant to be a soldier. His brother Mektu was
never meant for this world. Rivals since childhood, they are drafted
into a horrific war led by a madwoman-Prophet, and survive each day only
by hiding their disbelief. Kandri is good at blending in, but Mektu is
hopeless: impulsive, erratic--and certain that a demon is stalking him.
Is this madness or a second sense? Either way, Kandri knows that Mektu's
antics will land them both in early graves.
But all bets are off when the brothers' simmering feud explodes into
violence, and holy blood is spilled. Kandri and Mektu are taken for
contract killers and must flee for their lives--to the one place where
they can hope to disappear: the sprawling desert known as the Land that
Eats Men. In this eerie wilderness, the terrain is as deadly as the
monsters, ghouls, and traffickers in human flesh. Here the brothers find
strange allies: an aging warlord, a desert nomad searching for her
family, a lethal child-soldier still in her teens. They also find
themselves in possession of a secret that could bring peace to the
continent of Urrath. Or unthinkable carnage.
On their heels are the Prophet's death squads. Ahead lie warring armies,
sandstorms, evil spirits and the deeper evil of human greed. But hope
beckons as well--if the "Master Assassins" can expose the lie that has
made them the world's most wanted men.
