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In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt's TombMarching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say.
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...
Dragon is Steven Brust at his best-a swashbuckling fantasy adventure.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers,
Steven Brust worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with
Jhereg, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like "Dragaerans."
Over the next several years, several more "Taltos" novels followed, interspersed with other work, including
To Reign in Hell, a fantasy re-working of Milton's war in Heaven;
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian folktales; and a science fiction novel,
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille. The most recent "Taltos" novels are
Dragon and
Issola. In 1991, with
The Phoenix Guards, Brust began another series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its sequels are
Five Hundred Years After and the three volumes of "The Viscount of Adrilankha":
The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, and
Sethra Lavode.
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.
