<p><b>The razor-sharp first novel in the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Night Angel series from master of modern fantasy Brent Weeks - an astonishing and epic tale of magic, violence and revenge.</b><br><br><i>The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. </i><br><br>For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city''s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir.<br><br>For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he''s grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.<br><br>But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins'' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.<br><br><b>''Brent Weeks has a style of immediacy and detail that pulls the reader relentlessl