num_pages: 70
description: 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 you're here I see they're 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. He's also an immortal peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries he's worn many faces to hide his gift but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity and all too often he's 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 world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in.Word count: 17000
language: English
title: Perfect Shadow
publisher: Orbit