Perfect Shadow

Discover the origins of Durzo Blint in this original novella set in the world of Brent Weeks New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy. I got a bit of prophecy, the old assassin said. Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that youre here, I see theyre all you. Durzo Blint. Durzo Blint? Gaelan had never even heard the name. *** Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father, a careful, quiet, simple man. Hes also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, hes worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often hes become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble. But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the worlds finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything hes ever believed in. Word count: -17,000