The first of three prequels to the bestselling Spellslinger series.
The Alchemist meets The Three Musketeers--with card tricks. A
brilliant origin story of adventure, wit, and philosophy to enrapture
devotees as well as newcomers to the Spellslinger series.
Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the
spell-gifted nation that destroyed her people, starting with the man who
murdered her parents. Killing mages is a difficult and dangerous
business, of course, but when she meets the inimitable and extraordinary
Durrall Brown, she discovers that physical strength is not the only way
to defeat evil of all kinds. So Ferius undertakes to study the ways of
the Argosi: the loosely-knit tribe of tricksters known for getting the
better of even the most powerful of spellcasters. But the Argosi have a
price for their teachings, and by the time Ferius learns what it is, it
may be too late.