Ironic and gripping adventures of the assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion — three books under one cover: the seventh, eighth, and ninth novels in the series!
Dragaera is a world where ancient sorcery goes hand in hand with cold steel, conspiracies brew in the halls of splendid palaces and beneath the vaults of gloomy fortresses, and money, surprisingly enough, opens almost any door. Especially if you know where to get it.
But Vlad Taltos is not a treasure hunter. He fights with a rapier, practices magic, delivers quips, and from time to time is forced to save the world — if there is absolutely no way around it, and only for a worthy fee. And at his side, as always, sits a jhereg, while somewhere deep inside an uneasy foreboding never falls silent.
This time, Vlad’s troubles are the real thing. He merely decided to help a young man who had once saved his life — and ended up caught in a dangerous game with the influential House of Orca, unraveling a major financial fraud. Then he somehow “accidentally” wound up in the army (for an assassin, that sounds like a career catastrophe). And to top it all off, he went to rescue friends who, it seems, ended up in the hands of beings capable of reshaping reality. That is, the Jenoine. Yes, those legendary creators of the world.
Wait out the storm in the woods with a cup of klava? Not a chance. Once again, he’ll have to plunge straight into the thick of trouble.