Dragon - (Vlad) by Steven Brust (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt's Tomb</b> <p/>Marching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say. <p/>After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade he knows best--killing people for a living--suddenly Vlad Taltos finds himself in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, he's right in the middle of a apocalyptic battle between two sorcerous armies, and everyone expects him to play a role they won't explain. All Vlad's got between him and the worst kind of death is his wits. Oh, and a smart-mouthed winged lizard... <p/><i>Dragon</i> is Steven Brust at his best--a swashbuckling fantasy adventure.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A splendid caper that welcomes newcomers--while existing fans will pounce." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"A rousing adventure with enough humor, action, and sneaky plot twists to please newcomers as well as longtime series fans." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>"Steven Brust might just be America's best fantasy writer!" --<i>Tad Williams</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers, <b>Steven Brust</b> worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with <i>Jhereg</i>, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like Dragaerans. <p/>Over the next several years, several more Taltos novels followed, interspersed with other work, including <i>To Reign in Hell</i>, a fantasy re-working of Milton's war in Heaven; <i>The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars</i>, a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian folktales; and a science fiction novel, <i>Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille</i>. The most recent Taltos novels are <i>Dragon</i> and<i> Issola</i>. In 1991, with <i>The Phoenix Guards</i>, Brust began another series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its sequels are <i>Five Hundred Years After</i> and the three volumes of The Viscount of Adrilankha: <i>The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, </i>and<i> Sethra Lavode</i>. <p/>While writing, Brust has continued to work as a musician, playing drums for the legendary band Cats Laughing and recording an album of his own work, A Rose for Iconoclastes. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he pursues an ongoing interest in stochastics.</p>
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