[Vlad Taltos 06] • The Book of Athyra

**The Book of Jhereg** and **The Book of Taltos** collected the first five novels of Steven Brust's highly imaginative fantasy series that **Locus** praised as "entertaining and worth reading." **The Book of Athyra** features books six and seven in the series—**Athyra** and **Orca**.

Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer—as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery-winged jhereg who share a telepathic link with Vlad—and triple his chances against even the most powerful of enemies...

In **Athyra**, Vlad finds he's ready to retire himself and his jhereg companions, but the biggest hitters of the House of the Jhereg have something else in mind. In **Orca**, Vlad must repay a debt to a boy who saved his life—even if it means breaking a financial scandal big enough to bring down the House of the Orca, and possibly the entire Empire...