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.

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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: ~17,000

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: ~17,000