Part of the Vlad Taltos series , book 5
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Vlad Taltos is an assassin in the Dragaeran Empire. When someone tries to kill him, his patron goddess Verra saves him, and asks him in return to kill the king of Greenaere, an island where magic doesn't work. The killing is easy, but getting off the island is not.
The job sets in motion a series of events that leads to a revolution among the Teckla in Adrilankha. Vlad and his wife Cawti, who supports the rebels, are both in danger, and their marriage is under strain. The fifth Vlad Taltos novel by Steven Brust.
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Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. His recent novels also include The Incrementalists (2013) and its sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017), with co-author Skyler White. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust
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