About the Book
Act of Atonement: Book One
In Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Stover created a new kind
of fantasy novel, and a new kind of hero to go with it: Caine, a street
thug turned superstar, battling in a future where reality shows take
place in another dimension, on a world where magic exists and gods are
up close and personal. In that beautiful, savage land, Caine is an
assassin without peer, a living legend born from one of the
highest-rated reality shows ever made. That season, Caine almost
single-handedly defeated – and all but exterminated – the fiercest of all
tribes: the Black Knives. But the shocking truth of what really took
place during that blood-drenched adventure has never been revealed... until now.
Thirty years later, Caine returns to the scene of
his greatest triumph – some would say greatest crime – at the request of
his adopted brother Orbek, the last of the true Black Knives. But where
Caine goes, danger follows, and he soon finds himself back in familiar
territory: fighting for his life against impossible odds, with the fate
of two worlds hanging in the balance.
Just the way Caine likes it.
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