Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy Book 1)

The first volume in Robin Hobb’s internationally bestselling Farseer series.In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets Fitz son of Chivalry Farseer is a royal bastard cast out into the world friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit if used too often is a perilous magic and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry scribing courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly as he trains to become a royal assassin.