It chronicles the powerful awakening of Owyn - apprentice magician of untried strengths - and celebrates the selfless achievements of Pug, the great sorcerer of two worlds. It tells of mysterious deaths and sinister machinations - and signs of a time when the fate of many civilizations rested in the able, unfaltering hands of RiftWar veterans Squire Locklear and cunning their-turned-squire Jimmy the Hand. It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia - a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle.

But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. And Jimmy's youthful bravado and courage will plunge him deep into the maw of chaos and even-if he isn't careful-death. But Jimmy is completely unprepared for what greets him.Р”Р‡or Land's End is home to others who tread the crooked path, and more, to a much darker secret: a dangerous presence unknown even to the local thieves and smugglers. Suspecting that the rural villagers have never encountered a lad with his talent and nose for finding wealth-other people's wealth-he's fairly optimistic about his broadening horizons. Given the choice of disappearing on his own or in a weighted barrel at the bottom of Krondor's harbor, Jimmy flees the only home he's ever known, venturing south to the relatively safe haven of Land's End. Until the day he met Prince Arutha.Р”Р„iding the Prince in his rescue of Princess Anita from imprisonment by Duke Guy du Bas-Tyra, Jimmy runs afoul of Black Guy's secret police. Although gifted beyond his peers, he was still but a nimble street urchin, a pickpocket with potential. The sewers were his byways and a flea-ridden, rat-infested cellar his home. Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city.

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