'Fantasy as it ought to be written' GEORGE R.R. MARTINTom 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.Robin Hobb the Sunday Times bestselling author delivers yet another rural epic with Fool’s Assassin. Set in the historical town of Withywoods this top-tier fiction is a testament to Hobb's storytelling prowess.For fans of Brandon Sanderson (Defiant) Joe Abercrombie (The Wisdom of Crowds) John Gwynne (A Time of Dread) Patrick Rothfuss (The Wise Man's Fear) and Steven Erikson (Memories of Ice).
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Robin Hobb is one of the world’s finest writers of epic fiction. She was born in California in 1952 but raised in Alaska. She raised her family, ran a smallholding, delivered post to her remote comm... more
