Steven Brust

From The New York Times best-selling author of the Vlad Taltos series, Steven Burst, comes a snarky, irreverent tale of secret magic in the modern world, the first solo stand-alone novel in two decades....

Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful forces in his world, the Left Hand, who are intent on ending his very lucrative career. Permanently.

Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may just be better than he is at the Game. Women like this don’t come along every day and no way is he passing up a sure bet. So a wedding is being planned. Along with a shady deal gone wrong and a dead man who owes Vlad money.

With his best-selling novel The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels....

Two hundred years after Adron’s Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn’t what it used to be....

Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and “tolerably well-acquainted with its use.” Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement....

In which our heroes are reunited a mere five centuries later… just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself....

Years ago, Vlad Taltos came from the East, to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire....

With the help of his two jhereg, sorcerer and former assassin-for-hire Vlad Taltos takes on the corrupt House of the Orca as he sets out to uncover a huge financial scandal....

Vlad Taltos is very good at killing people. That, combined with two faithful companions and a talent for witchcraft, makes him an assassin par excellence....

When the Demon-Goddess saves him from a certain death, Vlad must pay her back with his professional services as an assassin....

House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos....

Vlad Taltos tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in love with the wonderful woman, Yendi, who killed him....

Soon after the events of Jhereg, Vlad becomes embroiled in a struggle between the House of the Jhereg and a group of revolutionaries that his wife has joined....

Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living....

Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario....

In which Vlad Taltos finds himself, much to his surprise, at the fateful Battle of Baritt's Tomb....

In which Vlad Taltos confronts the Left Hand of the Jhereg…and discovers the game has more players than he thought....

Okay, so maybe I've been living in the woods too long, where you can't even get a decent cup of klava first thing in the morning....

Devera has appeared again - to lead Vlad into a mysterious, seemingly empty manor overlooking the Great Sea....