[Thieves' World Novels 04] • Shadowspawn

Now, in the fourth full-length novel inspired by Thieves World, Andrew J. Offutt--author of the "Cormac Mac Art" series and the "Spaceways" series--takes his beloved character, Shadowspawn, beyond the walls of Sanctuary, into new realms of sorcery and high adventure.

 Shadowspawn.

Master thief of Sanctuary. In flight from the dark city of danger, he

is robbed by four mysterious highwaymen. It is the beginning of a strange

and exciting journey that leads him and his companions to the frightening

source of a magical vengeance: eleven silver coins that vanish - one by

one - for each stranger around them who dies...

Now,

in the fourth full-length novel inspired by Thieves' World, Andrew J.

Offutt takes his beloved thief Shadowspawn beyond the walls of Sanctuary,

and into new realms of crime and danger, sorcery and high adventure!

earned to survive the hard

way - by being forced to confront the alternative, time after time.

Fighter,

lover, acknowledged even among the many notorious denizens of the city

as a thief extraordinaire, hanse has a knack for disappearing suddenly,

as it the shadows had spawned him.

But now

he has left Sanctuary behind. Crossing the desert with the lovely young

S'danzo girl Mignureal, who loves him, well satisfied - for the moment

- with the fortune in silver coins that lines his saddlebags, he is nonetheless

wary and alert for danger.

For they

are heading for Firaqa - a city where power-hungry men rely on sorcery,

which Hanse abhors, to combat their rivals . . . and where danger lurks

in many guises.