Mistborn
Subtitle: the final empire
By: Brandon Sanderson
Edition: second mass market ed.
Series: Mistborn -- [bk. 1]
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: fantasy
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780765350381
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Fantasy
Description: Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.
But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.
This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PROLOGUE; title: PART ONE: THE SURVIVOR OF HATHSIN; title: CHAPTER 1; title: CHAPTER 2; title: CHAPTER 3; title: CHAPTER 4; title: CHAPTER 5; title: CHAPTER 6; title: CHAPTER 7; title: CHAPTER 8; title: PART TWO: REBELS BENEATH A SKY OF ASH; title: CHAPTER 9; title: CHAPTER 10; title: CHAPTER 11; title: CHAPTER 12; title: CHAPTER 13; title: CHAPTER 14; title: CHAPTER 15; title: PART THREE: CHILDREN OF A BLEEDING SUN; title: CHAPTER 16; title: CHAPTER 17; title: CHAPTER 18; title: CHAPTER 19; title: CHAPTER 20; title: CHAPTER 21; title: CHAPTER 22; title: CHAPTER 23; title: CHAPTER 24; title: CHAPTER 25; title: PART FOUR: DANCERS IN A SEA OF MIST; title: CHAPTER 26; title: CHAPTER 27; title: CHAPTER 28; title: CHAPTER 29; title: CHAPTER 30; title: CHAPTER 31; title: CHAPTER 32; title: CHAPTER 33; title: CHAPTER 34; title: PART FIVE: BELIEVERS IN A FORGOTTEN WORLD; title: CHAPTER 35; title: CHAPTER 36; title: CHAPTER 37; title: CHAPTER 38; title: EPILOGUE; title: ARS ARCANUM; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; title: THE WELL OF ASCENSION TEASER; title: TOR BOOKS BY BRANDON SANDERSON